Paul F. Roye

Paul F. Roye is a senior vice president of the Fund Business Management Group of Capital Research and Management Company ("Capital Research"); chairman of the board of the Capital Private Client Services Funds and Capital Emerging Markets Total Opportunities Fund; director of American Funds Service Company; president and principal executive officer of American Mutual Fund; executive vice president and principal executive officer of Growth Fund of America, Fundamental Investors, International Growth and Income Fund, The New Economy Fund and SMALLCAP World Fund; and senior vice president of AMCAP Fund, American Balanced Fund, The Income Fund of America and Investment Company of America.

Prior to joining Capital Research in 2005, he was Director of the Division of lnvestment Management for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and was among the most senior financial services regulators in the United States, with principal oversight for the investment management industry and public utility holding companies. During his tenure, he received the Chairman's Award of Excellence, the highest honor that can be bestowed upon an SEC staff member. Prior to becoming director, he was a member of the Washington office of the law firm of Dechert, where he was a partner in the firm's Financial Services, lnvestment Management and Corporate Securities Practice Group, specializing in the area of institutional investor law. His practice involved providing advice and assistance to a wide variety of domestic and foreign investment companies, as well as investment advisers, broker-dealers, banks and insurance companies.

Paul holds a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School at Ann Arbor, where he was Note and Comment Editor of the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. He also holds an A.B., cum laude, from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He serves on the Board of Directors of Friends, the Foundation of the California African American Museum, the Southern Africa Legal Services Foundation, and the Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni.

Paul is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association.