SSgA International Stock Selection Fund (SSAIX)

Rob is a Vice President of State Street Global Advisors and a member of the firm's Global Active Quantitative Equity Team. He is responsible for portfolio management, research, product development and positioning across multiple strategies within this group. Prior to joining SSgA in 2005, he was a consultant/relationship manager with State Street Analytics, a division of State Street Corporation. In this position, Rob was responsible for delivering performance measurement and investment analytic solutions to several of State Street's large institutional clients. Rob joined State Street Corporation in 1996. Rob received a BS in Business Administration with concentrations in Finance and Economics from Elizabethtown College. He has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst Designation and is a member of both the Boston Security Analysts Society and the CFA Institute.

Olivier Ekambi is a Senior Portfolio Manager and Co-Head of the Active Europe Equity Unit of SSgA France in Paris. He joined the firm in April 2006. Prior to joining SSgA, he worked at Ixis Asset Management as a quantitative portfolio manager and analyst. He has a Master's degree in Economics and Statistics and another one in Finance from the University of Toulouse. He is also a member of the CIIA (Certified International Investment Analyst) and of the SFAF (Société Française des Analystes Financiers). He has been working in the industry since 1998.

Anthony is the Head of Active Australian Equities for State Street Global Advisors and has been an integral member of this team since 2003. He had primary responsibility for developing the Active Australian Equity Long-Short capability and in this time oversaw the successful launch of both the Long-Short and Alpha Edge Australian Active Equity strategies. In a career spanning 13 years Anthony has also worked as a Portfolio Manager in the Controlled Risk Alpha team, Investment Manager in the Global Structured Products Group, as well as a brief stint in the Global Asset Allocation Group. He has managed a broad range of international and domestic equity portfolios, balanced products and overlays since joining SSgA in January 1997. Anthony received a Bachelor of Mathematics and Finance degree with First Class Honours from the University of Technology, Sydney, and has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Todd is a Vice President of State Street Global Advisors. He is the Head of the Asia-Pacific ex-Japan Active Equities group, covering developed market strategies. Joining SSgA in February 2005, he has over 15 years of experience in finance and has been involved in running active SSgA Long only, Long-Short and Edge strategies in the Asia-Pacific and Australia regions. Todd is the primary portfolio manager for regional multi-country developed market mandates and co-leads an All Country Asia strategy in conjunction with the SSgA Emerging Markets team. Prior to working for SSgA, Todd spent two years at Barra as a Senior Associate specializing in risk management and portfolio construction. From 2000 to 2002, Todd headed the Merrill Lynch Asia-Pacific ex-Japan Derivative Research group based in Hong Kong, where he produced quantitative research and strategy reports for Asia-Pacific equities and their derivatives. Todd has received an MA in Applied Finance from Macquarie University, Sydney, where he studied quantitative financial methods and presented his thesis on artificial intelligence systems' predictive abilities in the Australian market. He has also received a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance from the Securities Institute of Australia and a BS from Griffith University in Brisbane.

Veronica is a Vice President of State Street Global Advisors. She is a senior portfolio manager of the Asia Pacific ex Japan Active Equities team and responsible for Hong Kong and Singapore equities. Prior to joining SSgA in April 2006, she was the Head of the Asian quantitative research team in UBS and quantitative analyst of the Hong Kong enhanced equity investment team in Macquarie Funds Management. Veronica completed her Master of Philosophy in Finance and Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst Designation.

Fumihiko Kadowaki is a Vice President of State Street Global Advisors and a Portfolio Manager at State Street Global Advisors (Japan) Co., Ltd. He joined SSgA in January 2005 from Nikko Asset Management. He was with Nikko Asset Management for two years, and oversaw the firm's Japanese long-short strategy and fund analysis. Prior to joining Nikko Asset Management, Fumihiko was with the Asahi Life Group (Asahi Life Insurance and Asahi Life Asset Management) for approximately thirteen years, and was in charge of quantitative investment and quantitative research. He started his career in 1987 at Nihon Kangyo Kakumaru Securities, where he was involved in quantitative research for about four years. He holds a B.S. in Engineering from The University of Electro-Communications, and is a Chartered Member of the Security Analysts Association of Japan (CMA).

Didier is a Managing Director of State Street Global Advisors and the Head of EAFE and Global Strategies. Didier was a founding member of the international alpha select strategy team and the strategy lead since 2003. He is responsible for product development and portfolio management across the quantitative international active equity strategies. Since joining SSgA in 2000, Didier has focused on International equities. Prior to joining SSgA, Didier worked as an assistant trader for the BCEN Eurobank and as an auditor/consultant for Arthur Andersen. Didier was awarded a 2007 Standard & Poor's / Business Week excellence prize in the foreign funds category for his management of the SSgA International Stock selection mutual fund for the previous 5 years. Didier was also listed as Citywire Europe's 5th best fund manager in Citywire Europe's top 100 fund managers in 2007 for his co-management with Keppler Asset Management of the Global Advantage Fund in the previous 3 years. Didier holds an MBA from Northeastern University and a Masters in Management with honors from Rheims Graduate School of Management, a premier French Graduate School of Management. He has also earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Didier is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Gamma Sigma as well as MENSA International.