Ms. Vega-Jones serves as Operations Specialist and has
twenty-one years of investment industry experience. In this position, she is responsible for all
trade settlement functions relative to 4,500 separately managed accounts, which encompasses approximately
sixty custodial relationships. Ms. Vega-Jones serves as a primary liaison with the Company's trade management
and straight-through processing vendor and is responsible for managing daily communications with the
portfolio order management system. Prior to joining McDonnell, she was employed by Loomis Sayles and
Company as an Operations Specialist in the Core Bond Group, where she specialized in researching and
finalizing fixed income trade settlement. In addition, Ms. Vega-Jones previously held posts at Credit
Suisse First Boston Corporation and Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. She received her Associate Degree in
Liberal Arts from Richard J. Daley College in Chicago.
