Frank Caruso is a Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of US Growth Equities, a position he has held since 2012. He has led investment teams since 2004 and was a portfolio manager from 1995 to 2004. Caruso joined the firm in 1993, when it acquired Shields Asset Management, where he had been director of Equities. Previously, he was a managing director at Shearson Lehman Advisors, as well as CIO for Shearson Lehman Asset Management’s Directions and Capital Management businesses. Caruso was also formerly the lead portfolio manager for Shearson’s family of growth and income mutual funds and a senior member of Shearson Lehman Advisors’ Investment Policy Committee. He holds a BA in business economics from the State University of New York, Oneonta, and is a member of the CFA Society New York and the CFA Institute. He is a CFA charterholder. Location: New York