Paul Szczygiel

Website: www.babsoncapital.com

Paul S. Szczygiel, CFA, is a small-cap portfolio manager with Babson Capital Management, Boston, Massachusetts. Babson Capital manages more than $95 billion (as of 12/31/05) for institutional and retail investors in the U.S. and abroad, as well as high net worth individuals and family offices. The firm offers a wide range of absolute return, co-investing, financing and customized mandates utilizing equity, fixed-income and derivative instruments. Based in Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts, the firm has six additional offices in the U.S. and an indirect subsidiary, Babson Capital Europe Limited, in London. Babson Capital is a member of the MassMutual Financial Group.