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Advisor Information for TSEMX

Fund Inception05/12/2014
Name of IssuerTouchstone
Fund Advisor(s)Touchstone Advisors Inc
Sub-Advisor(s)Sands Capital Management, LLC

Fund Managers for TSEMX

Brian Christiansen
Portfolio Manager since 05/12/2014
Brian is a senior portfolio manager, research analyst, and executive managing director at Sands Capital. He joined Sands Capital in 2006 as a research associate, covering life sciences, after completing the first year of the MBA program at the Yale School of Management as a Silver Scholar. In 2008, Brian returned to complete the second year of the MBA program while continuing to work part time for Sands Capital. Following the completion of his MBA, he resumed working full time and rejoined as a research analyst, covering life sciences. In 2011, Brian became a co-portfolio manager of the Emerging Markets Growth strategy. In 2017, he was promoted to senior portfolio manager, and he was named as a director on the executive management team, which provides strategic leadership across the firm, in 2018. He became a co-portfolio manager on the Global Growth strategy in 2020 and was named director of stewardship in 2021. He served in this role until 2023, when a senior analyst on the stewardship team succeeded him. In addition to receiving an MBA from the Yale School of Management, Brian also received a BA in economics from Yale University. He is a CFA® charterholder
Teeja Boye
Portfolio Manager since 03/31/2022
Teeja is a co-portfolio manager of the Sands Capital Emerging Markets Growth strategy and of the Emerging Markets Growth ex China strategy, which he helped found, and a senior research analyst. Teeja joined Sands Capital in 2014 as a research consultant, mainly covering emerging market financial and industrial companies. He was subsequently promoted to research analyst in 2014 and senior research analyst in 2018. He joined the Emerging Markets Growth portfolio management team in 2022. Before joining Sands Capital, Teeja worked in London as an investment analyst at Insparo Asset Management and as an associate analyst at UBS. Teeja received a BSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an MBA from the UVA Darden School of Business. He is a CFA® charterholder.