MainStay WMC Growth R2 (KLGRX)

Equity Portfolio Manager and Managing Director is an equity portfolio manager on Wellington Management’s Growth Team. Mr. Shields manages equity assets on behalf of Wellington Management’s clients, drawing on research from Wellington Management’s global industry analysts, equity portfolio managers, and team analysts. Mr. Shields currently co-manages Wellington Management’s opportunistic growth approach and provides research to his team on the internet and media industries. Prior to joining Wellington Management in 2015, Mr. Shields worked as an equity research analyst covering business services companies at T. Rowe Price (2006 – 2015). Before that, he served as an investment associate at MDT Advisers (2000 – 2004) and as an investment-banking analyst at Harris Williams & Company (1998 – 2000). Mr. Shields received his MBA, with academic honors, from Harvard Business School (2006) and his BS in business administration, magna cum laude, from Washington and Lee University (1998).