Alan C. Gilston

Mr. Alan Gilston is a Vice President, Portfolio Manager of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. and is a manager of the firm’s Asset Allocation funds, beginning in February 2009.
He has twenty-seven years of investment experience.
Mr. Gilston joined OppenheimerFunds in 1997 as co-manager of the Discovery Fund.
He has managed multi-disciplined funds which employ an asset allocation overlay for allocating assets across a broad spectrum of asset classes and investment styles.
He was an original member or the firm’s Growth Team and was the Portfolio Manager for several Growth Funds.
For a period he was a member of Risk Management and has been involved with Investment Product Design.
Prior to joining OppenheimerFunds, Mr. Gilston was Vice President, Portfolio Manager of Schroder Capital Management International, where he worked for thirteen years.
He served on the firm’s Investment Committee and was directly involved in Investment Strategy.
His portfolio responsibilities included institutional accounts and high net worth individuals.
He began his career at Dreyfus Corporation, a mutual fund company, where he worked for three years as a Technology Analyst.
Mr. Gilston earned an MBA in Finance from St. John’s University and has a BBA in Management from The Bernard M.
Baruch College.