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Ms. Sears is Senior Vice President and a senior member of the Small Cap Portfolio Management team. She is also a Portfolio Manager of the Emerald Growth Fund and the F/m Emerald Life Sciences Innovation ETF. She works directly with the research team, interacting with team members across economic sectors and helping guide the day-to-day portfolio management decision-making process. Ms. Sears is also responsible for portfolio risk monitoring, portfolio attribution analysis, as well as Emerald’s portfolio management-related client communications. From a research perspective, Ms. Sears maintains research coverage of the Retail, Apparel, Restaurant, Consumer Goods and Consumer Technology companies. She has been quoted in Fortune, Money, the Dow Jones News Service and various regional newspapers. Ms. Sears received a BS in Business Administration from Millersville University and an MBA from Villanova University.