Emma Rodriguez-Ayala, ’06, Promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer at Ariel Investments

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With the start of the new year, we are pleased to announce some exciting new promotions. As the recently named Chief Investment Officer of Global Equities—alongside his role as CIO of Emerging Markets Equities—Henry Mallari-D’Auria, CFA® has been promoted to Executive Vice President. Although new to the firm, Henry has been a remarkable teammate right out of the gate and is perfectly suited to our culture. As he has expanded his responsibilities, Henry has coalesced the global and emerging markets teams in ways that leverage their individual talents while maintaining separate and distinct structures that maximize their expertise and accountability.

Likewise, Emma Rodriguez-Ayala has proven to be an invaluable colleague as she celebrates her one-year anniversary at Ariel. Having joined us from a $220 billion asset manager, Emma has a breadth of experience. There is little she has not seen or done. To further take advantage of her capabilities, Emma has been promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer. In this capacity, she will continue to oversee our legal and compliance efforts as the firm’s General Counsel while also assuming oversight of our middle office functions—working closely with our operations and technology department heads.

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