Charles D. Ryan

CHARLES D. RYAN is managing director and portfolio manager in the Growth
Equity Group Division of U.S. Trust Company of New York. He is a member
of the division’s Investment Policy Committee as well as U.S. Trust’s
Portfolio Policy Committee and Research Council Committee. His
responsibilities include primary research for healthcare-related
companies and consumer stocks. Prior to joining Growth Equity Group, Mr.
Ryan was with BNY Asset Management, the investment arm of The Bank of
New York, where he was head of the Institutional Equity Division. Mr.
Ryan’s responsibilities included product management for BNY Asset
Management Sector’s Institutional Equity Division, and he served on the
bank’s Investment Policy Committee. He was also a manager on the BNY
Hamilton Equity Income Fund. His clients included ERISA-qualified
corporate, Taft-Hartley pension funds, endowments and foundations. Mr.
Ryan is a member of the Association for Investment Management and
Research as well as the New York Society of Security Analysts. He holds
a BA from Villanova University.