Investment Team

HIRSCHEL B. ABELSON, PRESIDENT & CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER
Mr. Abelson co-founded Stralem & Company Incorporated in 1966. He became President in June of 1973. Mr. Abelson serves as Stralem’s Chief Investment Officer overseeing the firm’s investment strategy and is an officer of Stralem Equity Fund. Prior to founding Stralem, Mr. Abelson was a partner in corporate finance as well as an economic Adviser at Ladenburg, Thalmann which he joined in 1956. Mr. Abelson has managed and/or served on Boards of companies in the food service, housing, manufacturing, computer products, specialty retailing, radio broadcasting and publishing industries. From 1987 – 2000, Mr. Abelson served on the trustee investment committee of Cornell University. He is a member of the Board of Trustees at Pitzer College where he serves on the Investment Committee.

Education: BA, Cornell University, MBA, Cornell University.

ADAM S. ABELSON, SENIOR PORTFOLIO MANAGER
Mr. Abelson leads the firm's research effort overseeing the implementation of the US Large-Cap Equity Strategy. Mr. Abelson co-authors the firm's quarterly "West of the Hudson" letter, which is the product of the team's research trips around the world. He serves as an officer of Stralem Equity Fund and a Director of Stralem Investment Fund (UCITS). MR. Abelson joined Stralem in 1998 after managing business units within the emerging technologies, consumer products and hotel/gaming industries.

Education: BA, Pitzer College, Claremont Colleges

ANDREW J. ERAS, CFA DIRECTOR, INSTITUTIONAL ASSET MANAGEMENT
Mr. Eras leads the firm's marketing to consultants and institutions. Prior to joining Stralem in 2002, Mr. Eras was a Vice President with Bernstein Investment Research and Management where he spent three years as a Pension Advisor in the Institutional Sales Group. Mr. Eras joined Bernstein after five years as Institutional Sales Manager at The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. Prior to that, he spent five years as an internal wholesaler in the Capital Markets Group at Prudential Securities and five years as a Vice President at Dreyfus Securities. Mr. Eras is a member of the CFA Institute and NYSSA and is a CFA Charterholder.

Education: BA, State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany

ANDREA BAUMANN LUSTIG, DIRECTOR, PRIVATE CLIENT ASSET MANAGEMENT;
PRESIDENT, STRALEM EQUITY FUND
Ms. Lustig leads the firm's marketing to private clients and wealth managers. She is President of Stralem Equity Fund (US) and a Director of Stralem Investment Fund (UCITS). Prior to joining Stralem in 2003, Ms. Lustig was a Vice President with Bernstein Investment Research and Management where she spent five years as a Financial Advisor working extensively with private clients. She joined Bernstein after eleven years at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc., an international management consulting firm, where she was a Principal in the Strategy Practice and the Director of Operations for Financial Services in the US and Europe. Prior to Booz, Allen, Ms. Lustig was a Financial Analyst in Mergers & Acquisitions at Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. and an Associate in Investment Banking at Jefferies & Co. Ms. Lustig is also President of the Association for the Restoration of Jewish Works and Institutions in France (A.R.I.F). Ms. Lustig is a former Trustee of The Horace Mann School where she was President of the Parents Association. She is also Chair of Annual Giving for the Princeton Class of 1980, a member of the Scholarship Committee for Le Rosey, a Steering Committee member of the Socrates Society of the Aspen Institute, and a Board Member of the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District.

Education: BA, MPA Princeton University; MBA, Yale University. Fluent in French

PHILIPPE T. LABAUNE, VICE PRESIDENT, HEAD OF TRADING
Mr. Labaune joined Stralem in 1997 where he directs all trading operations for the firm. Mr. Labaune is also a Vice President of Stralem Equity Fund. Prior to joining Stralem, Mr. Labaune was a trader in charge of ADR's at Société Générale Securities Corp.

Education: DEUG Catholic University of Lyon; BA, MBA, Pace University. Fluent in French.

MICHAEL J. ALPERT, PORTFOLIO MANAGER
Mr. Alpert focuses on research for the firm's US Large Cap Equity Strategy. Prior to joining Stralem in 2010, Mr. Alpert was a Managing Director at J&W Seligman & Co where he was the Portfolio Manager and Head of the Seligman Small Company Growth Team. Mr. Alpert joined J&W Seligman in 1999 from business school as an Investment Analyst and became Portfolio Manager in 2006. He had security selection responsibility in a variety of sectors including, Consumer, Technology, Industrials, Financials and Commercial Services. Prior to business school, Mr. Alpert was a Manager for 7 years at Andersen Consulting where he did Technology and Strategic Consulting in the Communications Industry Group.

Education: BA, University of Connecticut Honors Program, MBA Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

EDWARD N. COOPER, CFA, SENIOR RESEARCH ANALYST
Mr. Cooper is a senior member of the firm's research team. Prior to joining Stralem 2006, Mr. Cooper spent ten years with Bloomberg L.P., a financial information provider, where he worked as an Equity Fundamental Analyst., a Fixed Income Research Analyst, and a French Translator with the Localization Group. In his positions at Bloomberg, Mr. Cooper specialized in security-level and portfolio-level analytics. He placed 1st out of a class of 40 in the 6-week intensive Bloomberg Analytics Desk training program. Mr. Cooper is a member of the CFA Institute and NYSSA and is a CFA Charterholder. He also served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Togo, West Africa.

Education: AB, Bowdoin College; MBA, Rutgers University. Fluent in French, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.

IRENE BERGMAN, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
Ms. Bergman joined Stralem & Co. in 1973 where she has been a financial advisor and account manager for domestic and foreign clients. Prior to Stralem, she was a senior investment professional in the International Department of Loeb, Rhoades & Co. For ten years prior to Loeb, Rhoades, Ms. Bergman was Assistant Manager in the Foreign Department of Hallgarten & Co. where she was active in merger arbitrages and authored a weekly market letter.

Education: Bismarck Lyceum – Berlin. Languages: Fluent in Dutch, German

COMPLIANCE

JOANN PACCIONE, CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER, DIRECTOR FINANCIAL OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION
Ms. Paccione, a Certified Public Accountant (inactive), has been responsible for financial, accounting and regulatory reporting for Stralem & Company Incorporated and Stralem Fund for over 20 years. In 2004, she was appointed Chief Compliance Officer for both the firm and the Fund and as such oversees and directs all internal and external regulatory and compliance matters. In 2008, Ms. Paccione was certified by the National Society of compliance Professionals as a Certified Securities Compliance Professional (CSCP). Prior to Stralem, Ms. Paccione worked for Eisner LLP, a certified public accounting firm, as Senior Audit Manager. In this role she was responsible for all aspects of audits including audit planning, supervision of audit staff and financial statement review for SEC clients and financial services firms.

Education: BS, Fairleigh Dickinson University.