Speaker Details
Speaker Name:	Howard F. Ward
Job Title:	Director of Growth Equities
Company:	GAMCO Investors, Inc.
	Howard F. Ward, a CFA charterholder, joined GAMCO Investors, Inc. in 1995 as senior vice president and portfolio manager of the GAMCO Growth Fund. In 2004, Mr. Ward was named director of Growth Equities and lead manager of the GAMCO Global Growth Fund. Prior to joining GAMCO, Mr. Ward spent twelve years at Scudder, Stevens and Clark as managing director of the company's large capitalization growth product and as lead portfolio manager of the Scudder Large Company Growth Fund and the Scudder Balanced Fund. Prior to joining Scudder, he was an investment officer at Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co. for four years. Mr. Ward is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts. He graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor's degree in economics.