Craig S. Lewis, CFA^®
President of Franklin Street Asset Management. Craig previously managed over $2 billion in small and mid cap growth equity portfolios with Essex Investment Management in Boston, where he was a Principal and Portfolio Manager. Prior to joining Essex, he held a variety of positions including Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Senior Analyst at Putnam Investments. Craig began his career as an analyst at Evergreen (formally Keystone Investments). He received a BA from the University of Notre Dame in 1986 and an MBA from the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School in 1992.

Robert C. Eubanks, Jr., Director
Founder and President of Franklin Street Partners. Previously, Bob was Co-Founder and President of McMillion Eubanks Capital Management in Greensboro. He has more than 40 years of experience as an investment professional. Bob’s community activities include serving as Chairman of the Educational Foundation Investment Trust and as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Investment Committee. He was elected twice to serve as Chairman of the UNC Board of Trustees and has also served as Chairman of the UNC Endowment Fund, President of UNC Alumni Association, President of the Educational Foundation and Vice-Chair for the All Kinds of Minds Foundation. Bob is an alumnus of UNC-Chapel Hill.

Michael D. Jackson, CFA^®
Michael serves as a portfolio manager and equity research analyst. He joined Franklin Street Partners in July 2004 after six years at Wachovia, where he held several positions including Vice President of Portfolio Strategy for Wachovia Securities. His prior work also includes a two-year stint with PaineWebber. Michael graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration in 1995 and earned an MBA from Wake Forest University in 2001.

Biren C. Patel
Biren is an equity research analyst. He is responsible for security analysis and security selection for Franklin Street Asset Management. Biren joined Franklin Street Partners in June 2002. He previously interned with Bear, Stearns & Co. in their Equity Research Group, and worked at Verizon and Advanced Micro Devices in their sales and marketing groups. He graduated with a Master of Business Administration degree from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.

Brad N. Corbett
Brad is an analyst with Franklin Street Asset Management where he is responsible for providing investment ideas and risk analysis. Prior to joining the Equity Group, Brad worked on Franklin Street’s Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund product, where he was responsible for due diligence, manager selection and strategy allocation for relative value strategies, including arbitrage and credit-related managers, global macro strategies and equity long/short strategies. Brad began his professional career at Barclays Capital, where he held a variety of trading roles involving mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities and US Treasury securities. Brad received his MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which included graduate course work at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He received his undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College.