Meet Edwin

Edwin Walczak joined Vontobel in July 1988. He is Portfolio Manager and Senior Research Analyst within Quality Growth. He manages the US Equity strategy since its inception and is also responsible for conducting research analysis on individual stocks, which may be included in the portfolios managed within Quality Growth. He focuses on companies in the industrials, financials, consumer discretionary, and consumer staples sectors.

Prior to joining Vontobel, he worked as an Institutional Portfolio Manager at Lazard Frères Asset Management from 1984 to 1988. From 1982 to 1984, he was an Institutional Relationship Manager at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. He began his financial career in 1978 as a financial analyst, holding successive positions at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, and General Motors Corporation in New York until 1982.

Edwin holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance and a Master of Arts in International Politics and Economics from Columbia University, was an International Fellow at Columbia Graduate School in New York and received a Bachelor of Arts (Phi Beta Kappa) in Government from Colby College in Maine.