Vessela Tasker

Ms. Vessela Tasker is a Portfolio Manager at State Street Global Advisors Australia Ltd.
Prior to joining SSgA, she was a research and quant analyst at Investors Mutual Limited (IML), an active value equity manager in Australia where she was responsible for company research and valuation with a particular focus on the resources sector as well as creating and maintaining internal stock screens for industrial stocks.
Before joining IML in 2005, she worked as an associate for one year at Aronson & Johnson & Ortiz (AJO), an institutional investment manager with more than US$20bn in assets based in Philadelphia.
She was also involved in portfolio accounting and performance measurement.
Prior to joining AJO in 2004, she was an associate at S&P Corporate Value Consulting and performed company valuations for various purposes including but not limited to M&A, Purchase Price Allocations, tax and other accounting purposes.
Ms. Tasker holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Management Information Systems with Honours from Drexel University in the US.
She has passed Level I of the Chartered Financial Analyst examination.