Whitney Merrill

WHITNEY MERRILL is currently a Senior Vice President and Chief
Investment Officer for Wafra Investment Advisory Group, Inc. Wafra
manages over $2 billion in domestic and global assets for Middle East
Institutions. Mr. Merrill previously was a Managing Director at Mitchell
Hutchings Asset Management, Portfolio Manager at Gintel Asset
Management, Rothschild Asset Management, and Analyst for the United
States Trust Company. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a
B.A. degree (1965), and received his MBA from Long Island University
(1967). Mr. Merrill is a member of AIMR and a Chartered Financial
Analyst. Whitney is married 29 years and has two sons.