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Board of Trustees
PRIMECAP Odyssey Funds is a Delaware statutory trust (the "Trust"). The Board of Trustees of the Trust decides matters of general policy and reviews the activities of the Advisor and the Funds' distributor and administrator.
- Benjamin F. Hammon, Chairman of the Board and Trustee
- Joel P. Fried*, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Trustee
- Wayne H. Smith, Chairman of the Audit Committee and Trustee
- Joseph G. Uzelac, Trustee
- Elizabeth Obershaw, Trustee
*Mr. Fried is an "interested person" of the Trust, as defined by the 1940 Act, because of his employment with PRIMECAP Management Company, the investment advisor to the Trust
BENJAMIN F. HAMMON
Chairman and Trustee,
PRIMECAP Odyssey Funds
Mr. Hammon served as an officer in the United States Air Force from 1958 to 1961. He spent thirty-six years with Salomon Smith Barney and retired in 1998 as Director-Institutional Sales. From 1993 to 1995, he was a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers District #2 Committee. Mr. Hammon is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
JOEL P. FRIED
President, Director, Portfolio Manager, and Principal,
PRIMECAP Management Company
Co-Chief Executive Officer, Trustee, and Portfolio Manager,
PRIMECAP Odyssey Funds
Mr. Fried joined PRIMECAP Management Company in June 1986. Prior to joining PRIMECAP, he spent one year as a financial analyst with Hughes Investment Management Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft. Mr. Fried received his undergraduate degree in Economic Systems/Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a graduate of UCLA Anderson School of Management.
WAYNE H. SMITH
Chairman of the Audit Committee and Trustee,
PRIMECAP Odyssey Funds
Mr. Smith is the retired Vice President of Financial Services and Treasurer of Avery Dennison Corporation. During his career at Avery, his responsibilities included treasury, tax, risk management, accounts receivable management, and investor relations. Prior to joining Avery in 1979, he was Assistant Treasurer of International Finance for The Quaker Oats Company in Chicago, Illinois. Earlier, he was associated with The Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan as operations analyst and later as manager of Credit and Collections for Dow Chemical Latin America in Coral Gables, Florida. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering and from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
JOSEPH G. UZELAC
Trustee,
PRIMECAP Odyssey Funds
Mr. Uzelac is the retired Managing Director of Institutional Equity Sales for Lehman Brothers, West Coast Region. Mr. Uzelac's investment career spanned 38 years in San Francisco and included association with Bache & Company, L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin, and 19 years with Lehman Brothers. Mr. Uzelac served in the United States Air Force Reserve from 1966 to 1972 and graduated from the University of Utah with an Economics degree.
ELIZABETH OBERSHAW
Trustee,
PRIMECAP Odyssey Funds
Ms. Obershaw is a Managing Director at Horsley Bridge Partners, a venture capital and private equity Fund of Funds manager that she joined in 2007. Prior to that, she spent 24 years in investment management roles at Hewlett-Packard Company and was its Chief Investment Officer for 16 years. Elizabeth holds a BA from UCLA and an MBA from Stanford University.
