Nicholas F. Galluccio

Nicholas F. Galluccio

Nicholas F. Galluccio is President and Chief Executive Officer of Teton Advisors, Inc., and Portfolio Manager of the TETON Westwood SmallCap Equity Fund. Mr. Galluccio joined Teton Advisors, Inc., in 2008, after a 25-year career at Trust Company of the West — TCW — where he was Group Managing Director, U.S. Equities, and led the investment team for the TCW SmallCap Value Added and TCW MidCap Value Opportunities equity strategies. He was Senior Portfolio Manager and co-managed both strategies since their inception. Prior to TCW, he was with Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb where he was a security analyst specializing in the semiconductor industry. Prior to Lehman Brothers, Mr. Galluccio was a staff writer forForbes magazine. Mr. Galluccio holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, and an M.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. from the University of Hartford. He serves on the executive advisory board of the Columbia Business School Program for Financial Studies.