John Fogarty is a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager for U.S. Growth Equities at AB, a position he has held since 2009. He rejoined the firm in 2006 as a fundamental research analyst covering consumer-discretionary stocks in the U.S., having previously spent nearly three years as a hedge fund manager at Dialectic Capital Management and Varden Partners. Mr. Fogarty began his career at AB in 1988, performing quantitative research, and joined the US Large Cap Growth team as a generalist and quantitative analyst in 1995. He became a portfolio manager in 1997. Mr. Fogarty holds a B.A. in history from Columbia University and is a CFA charterholder.

Mr. Yee joined the firm in 2004 and is a Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Senior Quantitative Analyst for US Relative Value. He is also a Senior Quantitative Analyst for the US Growth Equities team. Mr. Yee previously served as a senior associate portfolio manager within the Global Portfolio Management Group, where he covered growth equity products. Mr. Yee holds a BA in economics from Trinity College and an MBA in finance from Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business (now the Gabelli School of Business).