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Howard F. Ward is GAMCO’s Chief Investment Officer of Growth Equities, Portfolio Manager for the GAMCO Growth Fund and Co-Portfolio Manager of the GAMCO Global Growth Fund. Howard joined GAMCO Investors, Inc. in 1995 as Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager of the GAMCO Growth Fund. In 2004 he was named Director of Growth Products. Howard is a fundamental growth investor, seeking to invest in companies with superior growth prospects whose stocks appear undervalued relative to their future earnings stream.

Prior to joining Gabelli, Howard spent twelve years at Scudder, Stevens and Clark where he served as Managing Director and Product Leader of Scudder's large capitalization growth product and lead portfolio manager of the Scudder Large Company Growth Fund and the Scudder Balanced Fund.

Prior to joining Scudder, Howard was with Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co. for four years where he held the title of Investment Officer in the firm's Institutional Investment Department.

Howard is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1978 with a BA in economics.