Fidelity Stock Pitch

Keynote Speaker

Lionel T. Harris, CFA
Portfolio Manager, Fidelity Asset Management

Lionel Harris is a portfolio manager for Fidelity Investments. Fidelity Investments is a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing and other financial products and services to more than 20 million individuals, institutions and financial intermediaries. Mr. Harris currently manages Fidelity Small Cap Stock Fund.

Mr. Harris joined Fidelity's High Income division in 1995 as a research analyst, and subsequently followed a range of industries. He was named high income director of research in 2000. Mr. Harris joined Fidelity's Small-Cap Equity research team in 2002, and became the Small-Cap team's sector leader in 2004. He was co-manager of Fidelity Small Cap Growth Fund and Fidelity Advisor Small Cap Growth Fund from 2005 to 2006 until he assumed primary management responsibilities for both until 2011. He managed Fidelity Small Cap Discovery Fund from 2005 to 2006 and co-managed Fidelity Series Small Cap Opportunities Fund from 2007 to 2009. He began managing Fidelity Small Cap Stock Fund in November 2011.

Prior to joining Fidelity, Mr. Harris served as senior research project manager at Cambridge Associates, Inc. At Cambridge Associates he researched, authored and managed the firm's research publication "High-Yield Bonds," which served as the basis for asset allocation decisions of consultants and over 150 endowed institutions.

Born in 1967, Mr. Harris received a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Dartmouth College in 1989 and an MBA degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. Mr. Harris has been a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder since 1993.