Brian M. Gillott is a Managing Director and Opportunistic Equity Portfolio Manager at Jennison Associates, an institutional investment management firm with over $100 billion in equity assets under management. He joined Jennison in September 1998 from the hedge fund industry. Prior to Jennison, he was an equity analyst at Soros Fund Management, following a variety of industries for the company’s global hedge fund, seeking both long and short opportunities. Prior to Soros Fund, Brian was an analyst at Goldman Sachs in the private client asset management group. He worked at Trinity Investment Management as a financial analyst for four years during college. He received a BS with Honors from Penn State University. Barron’s magazine named Brian one of the top 100 mutual fund managers in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 (the last year of the award).