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Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund
Managers
Lead Portfolio Manager:Richard H. Gao Richard Gao joined Matthews in 1997 as a China Analyst and is currently a Portfolio Manager. He began his career at the Bank of China in 1989, first as a loan officer, then as a FOREX Trader in the Treasury Department. In 1993, he became Assistant Manager at the Bank of China, where he was in charge of FOREX trading for import/export companies. Richard received a B.A. in Literature from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in China and an M.B.A. in International Business from the Dominican University of California. He is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and Shanghainese. Richard has been a Portfolio Manager of the Pacific Tiger Fund since 2006, and of the China Fund since 1999.
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Lead Portfolio Manager:Sharat Shroff, CFA Sharat Shroff, CFA, joined Matthews in 2005 and is currently a Portfolio Manager. Prior to joining Matthews as a Research Analyst, Sharat spent five years in the San Francisco office and seven months in the Hong Kong office of Morgan Stanley as an Equity Research Associate. Sharat received a Bachelor of Technology from the Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India and an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, in Calcutta, India. He is fluent in Hindi and Bengali. Sharat has been a Portfolio Manager of the Pacific Tiger Fund since 2008, of the Asia Pacific Fund since 2007, and of the India Fund since 2006.
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Co-Portfolio Manager:Mark W. Headley Mark Headley is Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer and a Portfolio Manager at Matthews. Mark joined Matthews in 1995 and has been actively involved in the Asian markets since 1989. He was an original member of the team that launched the first SEC registered open-ended Asia (ex-Japan) fund. Mark received a B.A. in Economics and Politics from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Mark has been a Portfolio Manager of the Pacific Tiger Fund since 1996, of the China Fund since the Fund’s inception in 1998, of the Korea Fund since 1997, and of the Asian Technology Fund since the Fund’s inception in 1999.
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