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Advisor Information for GSCZX

Fund Inception08/27/2001
Name of IssuerGuideStone Funds
Fund Advisor(s)GuideStone Capital Management, LLC
Sub-Advisor(s)TimesSquare Capital Management, LLC
American Century Investment Management Inc
Jacobs Levy Equity Management, Inc.
Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC
Driehaus Capital Management LLC
Delaware Investments Fund Advisers

Fund Managers for GSCZX

Grant Babyak
Portfolio Manager since 08/31/2002
Grant is a Partner and CEO/Portfolio Manager at TimesSquare. He is also a member of the Management Committee that oversees TimesSquare. Prior to joining TimesSquare in 2000, Grant managed small cap and mid cap portfolios at Fiduciary Trust Company International. He previously worked for six years at Avatar Associates as an institutional portfolio manager and for two years at U.S. Trust Company of New York as an analyst covering the consumer and basic industrial sectors. Grant has a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.
Kenneth Duca
Portfolio Manager since 12/31/2007
Ken is a Director and Portfolio Manager/Analyst in TimesSquare’s growth equity group, responsible for covering the business services, transaction processing, and energy sectors. Prior to joining TimesSquare in 2000, Ken held a similar position at Fiduciary Trust Company International. Before joining Fiduciary Trust, Ken spent 10 years with Prudential where, at the time of his departure, he was a senior equity analyst on the small cap growth team. Ken has a B.A. in Economics from Muhlenberg College and an M.B.A. from Rutgers University. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the New York Society of Security Analysts.
Bruce Jacobs
Portfolio Manager since 09/30/2018
Bruce I. Jacobs, Principal, co-founded Jacobs Levy Equity Management in 1986. He is co-chief investment officer, portfolio manager, and co-director of research. Dr. Jacobs’s articles on equity management have appeared in the Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Investing, Journal of Financial Perspectives, Japanese Security Analysts Journal, Operations Research, and Journal of Impact and ESG Investing. He has received several Graham and Dodd Awards from Financial Analysts Journal, a Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award from the Journal of Portfolio Management, and an Outstanding Article Award from the Journal of Investing. Dr. Jacobs has spoken at many forums, including the Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research at the Wharton School, the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance, Berkeley Program in Finance, CFA Institute, Rutgers University, Society of Quantitative Analysts, and New York Society of Security Analysts, and he has given a Financial Analysts Journal Media Seminar and presented at conferences for Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Formerly he was First Vice President of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, where he served as Senior Managing Director of a quantitative equity management affiliate of the Prudential Asset Management Company and Managing Director of the Pension Asset Management Group. Prior to that, he was on the finance faculty of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and consulted to the Rand Corporation. Dr. Jacobs has a B.A. from Columbia College, an M.S. in Operations Research and Computer Science from Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, an M.S.I.A. from Carnegie Mellon University’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration, and an M.A. in Applied Economics and a Ph.D. in Finance from the Wharton School. He serves on the Ambassador Advisory Board of the Journal of Portfolio Management, the Advisory Board of the Journal of Financial Data Science, and is an Advisory Editor for the Journal of Impact and ESG Investing. He has also served on the Financial Analysts Journal Advisory Council, and was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Trading. Dr. Jacobs also served on the Committee to Establish the National Institute of Finance and was a member of its successor, the Office of Financial Research Discussion Forum. He is Chair of the Advisory Board of the Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research at the Wharton School, and helped create the new Quantitative Finance major at the Wharton School by establishing the Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Professorship in Quantitative Finance and the Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Scholars in Quantitative Finance.
Kenneth Levy
Portfolio Manager since 09/30/2018
Kenneth N. Levy, CFA, co-founded Jacobs Levy Equity Management in 1986. He is principal, co-chief investment officer, portfolio manager, and co-director of research of the firm. Previously, Mr. Jacobs was managing director of a quantitative equity management affiliate of the Prudential Asset Management Company. Prior to that, he was responsible for quantitative research at Prudential Equity Management Associates.
Christopher Adams
Portfolio Manager since 09/30/2018
Christopher S. Adams, CFA Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager Christopher S. Adams is a senior portfolio manager on the firm’s US Core Equity team and performs analysis and research to support the portfolio management function. He joined the team in 2000 and became a portfolio manager in November 2004. Prior to joining Macquarie Investment Management (MIM) in 1995 as assistant vice president of strategic planning, Adams had approximately 10 years of experience in the financial services industry in the United States and United Kingdom, including positions with Coopers & Lybrand, The Sumitomo Bank, Bank of America, and Lloyds Bank. Adams holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history and economics from the University of Oxford, England, and received an MBA with dual concentrations in finance and insurance/risk management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a past president of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.
David Reidinger
Portfolio Manager since 09/30/2018
Managing Director, Head of US Core Equity •Joined Macquarie in 2016 •Based in Philadelphia Dave is Head of Macquarie Asset Management’s (MAM’s) US Core Equity Team, a role he first assumed in March 2025. Dave is responsible for management of the team’s investment portfolios and business, and he performs analysis and research. Before that, Dave was a Senior Portfolio Manager for the team, a role he assumed in October 2016. Prior to joining the firm, Dave was a Senior Equity Analyst and Portfolio Manager at Chartwell Investment Partners, where he had worked on the firm’s small- and mid-cap growth strategies since 2004. Prior to Chartwell, Dave was a Portfolio Manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management and a Senior Equity Analyst at Tiger Management. Dave began his investment career in 1993 as an Equity Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs. Dave received a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and economics from Fordham University and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School.
Michael Morris
Portfolio Manager since 09/30/2018
David E. Reidinger Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager David E. Reidinger joined Macquarie Investment Management (MIM) in October 2016 as a senior portfolio manager on the firm’s US Core Equity team. He also performs analysis and research to support the portfolio management function. From June 2004 to September 2016, Reidinger was a senior analyst and portfolio manager at Chartwell Investment Partners, where he worked on the firm’s small- and mid-cap growth strategies. Before that, Reidinger was a portfolio manager with Morgan Stanley Investment Management from 2000 to 2003, and a senior equity analyst with Tiger Management from 1998 to 2000. Reidinger began his career in 1993 as an equity research analyst with Goldman Sachs. With more than 20 years of experience as an analyst, he has covered a broad range of industries within the information technology, consumer, and industrial sectors. Reidinger earned bachelor’s degrees in both mathematics and economics from Fordham University, and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Donald Padilla
Portfolio Manager since 09/30/2018
Donald G. Padilla, CFA Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager Donald G. Padilla is a senior portfolio manager on the firm’s US Core Equity team and performs analysis and research to support the portfolio management function. He joined the team in 2000 and became a portfolio manager in November 2004. Padilla joined Macquarie Investment Management (MIM) in 1994 as assistant controller in the firm’s treasury function, responsible for managing corporate cash investments, developing financial models, and overseeing the financial operations of the Lincoln Life 401(k) annuities segment. Prior to joining the firm, he held various positions at The Vanguard Group. Padilla holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Lehigh University, and he is a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.
Brandon Pizzurro
Portfolio Manager since 04/30/2019
Brandon Pizzurro serves as Chief Investment Officer over all investment-related lines of business within GuideStone. In this capacity, he serves as President of both GuideStone Capital Management, LLC (“GSCM”), the investment adviser to GuideStone Funds, and GuideStone Investment Services (“GSIS”), which provides investment advisory services to nonprofit institutions. He is also an Interested Director of the Board of Directors of GuideStone Funds. Mr. Pizzurro is a member of the executive leadership team for the parent company, GuideStone, and chairs both the organization’s Committee on Faith-Based Investing, which directs GuideStone’s faith-based research efforts, as well as the Investment Committees of GSIS and GSCM, which approve all new investments for use on the GuideStone platform. Mr. Pizzurro joined GuideStone in 2017 and most recently served as Director of Public Investments, where he led the public markets complex in overseeing all aspects of the management of the GuideStone Funds lineup of registered mutual funds. Prior to assuming his responsibilities at GuideStone, Mr. Pizzurro spent 13 years in roles of increasing investment responsibility and scope at First Command Financial Services, 1st Global and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Pizzurro holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance and Real Estate from Baylor University. He is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certificant and a member of both the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Dallas/Fort Worth.
Jeff John
Portfolio Manager since 10/06/2020
Jeff John is the portfolio manager of American Century Investments. He has been a member of the team that manages the fund since he joined American Century Investments in 2008 as an analyst. He became a portfolio manager in 2012. Before joining American Century, he was an equity research analyst at Kornitzer Capital Management-Buffalo Funds Group. He has a bachelor of science degree in business from the University of Colorado in Boulder and an MBA in finance and accounting from Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management. He is a CFA charterholder
Ryan Cope
Portfolio Manager since 10/06/2020
Mr. Cope joined American Century in 2009, became a portfolio research analyst in 2010 and an investment analyst in 2012. He became a portfolio manager in April 2020. Mr. Cope has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Truman State University and an MBA from Kansas State University. He is a CFA charterholder.
James Reber
Portfolio Manager since 05/31/2022
James Reber, Managing Director – Portfolio Management, is responsible for portfolio management of Parametric’s Private Client Direct Group — primarily serving Parametric’s wealth management and family office client base. The Private Client Direct Group manages US, non-US and global Custom Core® portfolios. Prior to joining Parametric in 2004, James was a Senior Associate with Standard and Poor’s Corporate Value Consulting Group providing financial valuation services to IT and technology industries. He earned an M.B.A. from the University of Washington and a B.S. in chemical engineering from Michigan State University
Joshua Chastant
Portfolio Manager since 01/01/2024
David Ferreiro
Portfolio Manager since 05/01/2024
Christina Van Het Hoen
Portfolio Manager since 07/31/2024
Christina is a Senior Equity Analyst on the US Core Team for Macquarie Asset Management (MAM). She performs research and analysis on companies in the business services, credit cyclicals, and transportation sectors. Prior to Macquarie, she worked at Capital Group as part of Capital Fixed Income Investors for nearly six years and at Citigroup in the healthcare investment banking, global securitized products, and equity capital markets groups for four years. Christina is on the board of Children’s Village in Philadelphia, a non-profit that offers early childhood education to young and school-aged children. She holds a Bachelor of Science in engineering in operations research and financial engineering from Princeton. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and is a member of the CFA Institute.
Jennifer Mihara
Portfolio Manager since 07/31/2024
Jennifer is responsible for portfolio management with the Private Client Direct Portfolio Management Team, and was previously a portfolio manager in the Centralized Portfolio Management Group. Prior to joining Parametric in 2005, Jennifer was an Investment Associate at Merrill Lynch for five years where she specialized in financial planning and portfolio construction. She earned a BA in economics and a minor in mathematics from Colgate University.
Michael Buck
Portfolio Manager since 03/20/2025
Michael Buck is a portfolio manager and a senior analyst on the US Growth Equities Team with a focus on the consumer discretionary, consumer staples, and financials sectors. His in-depth fundamental research, idea generation, and buy/sell recommendations are leveraged across the Micro Cap Growth, Small Cap Growth, and Small/Mid Cap Growth strategies. As portfolio manager for these three strategies, he is also responsible for providing depth of leadership to the team. Mr. Buck began his career at Deloitte Consulting, LLC as a business analyst until he joined Driehaus Capital Management in 2002. He received his B.A. and B.M. in economics and cello performance from Northwestern University in 2000.
Prakash Vijayan
Portfolio Manager since 03/20/2025
Prakash Vijayan is an assistant portfolio manager and senior analyst on the US Growth Equities Team with a focus on the information technology and communication services sectors. His in-depth fundamental research, idea generation, and buy/sell recommendations are leveraged across the Micro Cap Growth, Small Cap Growth, and Small/Mid Cap Growth strategies. Mr. Vijayan began his career as an equity research analyst for Beekman Capital Management in 2005, covering the technology, media, and telecommunications sectors prior to joining Driehaus Capital Management in 2010. He received his Bachelor of Technology degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 2003 and a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from Arizona State University in 2005. Mr. Vijayan is a CFA charterholder.
Jeffrey James
Portfolio Manager since 03/20/2025
Jeffrey James is the lead portfolio manager for the Micro Cap Growth, Small Cap Growth, and Small/Mid Cap Growth strategies. In his role as portfolio manager, he has final responsibility for the strategies’ portfolio construction, risk management, and buy/sell decisions. Additionally, he is responsible for implementation of the investment philosophy, idea generation as well as the evaluation of macro-level trends and the market environment.