Allison K. Thacker (RS Investments) has been a co-portfolio manager of RS Internet Age Fund® and The Information Age Fund® since April 2003, and RS Emerging Growth Fund since January 2007.

Prior to joining RS Investments in 2000 as an analyst covering Internet and consumer discretionary stocks, she worked as a summer associate at Putnam Investments, and, prior to that, she was an analyst in the energy group at Merrill Lynch & Company for two years.

Ms. Thacker holds a B.A. in economics from Rice University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.