Foster S. Friess, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, became Director of Research for Brittingham, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange firm, following two years in U.S. Army Intelligence. In 1974, he started his own firm, Friess Associates, which now manages more than $7 billion in assets for clients that include the John M. Templeton Foundation and numerous Fortune 500 corporate pension plans. Friess Associates’ flagship Brandywine Fund has appeared on every listing of Money Magazine’s “World’s Best Mutual Funds”; BusinessWeek has called Mr. Friess the “longest-surviving successful growth stock picker”; and Ron Insana of CNBC dubbed him “one of the last century’s great investors.” Books highlighting his insights and achievements include Secrets of the Investment All-Stars, by Kenneth A. Stern, and The Entrepreneur’s Creed: Principles and Passions of 20 Successful Entrepreneurs, by Merrill Oster, Mike Hammel and Bill Bright. In 1992, Mr. Friess and his wife established the Lynn and Foster Friess Family Foundation, a $100-plus million grant-making foundation that focuses on one-on-one mentorship and targets small, entrepreneurial, faith-based urban charities. Among his many honors and awards have been the first Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award in 1999, the Council for National Policy’s Rich M. DeVos Free Enterprise Award for Exceptional Leadership in 2000, and the Humanitarian of the Year Award in 2001.