Mark Rayner, CA, is a Portfolio Manager for Royce & Associates, LP, investment adviser to The Royce Funds. Mr. Ryaner serves as Portfolio Manager for Royce International Premier Fund (with David Nadel as Lead Portfolio Manager). He has 32 years of investment industry experience. Before joining Royce & Associates, Mr. Rayner was a Partner and Portfolio Manager at DE Capital Management LLP, England. In addition, he has extensive experience in researching European smaller companies at the London offices of various brokerage firms, including Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns. From 1996 to 2002 Mr. Rayner worked at Citigroup, London where he was Managing Director and Head of European smaller-companies research. At Citigroup, he led the top-rated European research team for four consecutive years, according to The Thomson Reuters Survey. Mr. Rayner is a Chartered Accountant and holds a BA from Sussex University, England in Economics and German. Royce & Associates, LP, investment adviser to The Royce Funds, is a small-cap equity specialist offering portfolios with distinctive investment approaches to address specific investment goals. The firm has been managing micro-cap, small-cap and small/mid-cap portfolios for more than 40 years.