General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> May 2, 2005

MEIGHAN HARAHAN – DRIEHAUS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

MEIGHAN HARAHAN, CFA, CPA, is a portfolio manager at Driehaus Capital Management, Inc., with shared responsibility (with Richard Driehaus) for the mid cap growth style domestic portfolios. Ms. Harahan supervises the team of research analysts and associates responsible for investment ideas for the mid cap growth portfolios. After receiving her BA in Accountancy from Michigan State University in 1982, Ms. Harahan worked for Deloitte, Haskins & Sells as an accountant from 1983 to 1985 and for the Walt Disney Company as a financial analyst from 1985 to 1986. She earned her MBA from the University of Chicago in 1988. Ms. Harahan then joined Prudential Securities as an associate in the corporate finance department. In 1991, she worked for Hellmold Associates, an investment firm specializing in restructurings. She joined Citicorp in 1992 as a credit analyst. From 1992 through 1994 she was a fixed income analyst with PPM America, responsible for analyzing and recommending investment grade and high yield bonds. Ms. Harahan joined Driehaus Capital Management in 1994. Profile
TWST: Meighan, would you start with a brief overview of Driehaus Capital

Management?

Ms. Harahan: I am the portfolio manager for the Driehaus Mid Cap Growth

product, which was started in April