Mr. Connerly is Director of Quantitative Research for Boston Partners. Prior to assuming this role, he was a research analyst covering the financials, electronics, defense, transportation, and energy sectors and managed a merger arbitrage portfolio. Mr. Connerly joined the firm in June 1998 from John Hancock Mutual Funds where he was an analyst and assisted in the management of a small-cap portfolio. Prior to that, he was a senior equity analyst at SEI Investments overseeing its small-cap equity portfolios. Mr. Connerly earned a B.S.F.S. cum laude in Development Economics from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. in Security Analysis and Investment Management, Beta Gamma Sigma, from Columbia Business School. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.