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Charles  M.  Royce

President and Chief Investment Officer

Portfolio Manager

Royce Pennsylvania Mutual Fund

Royce 100 Fund

Royce Dividend Value Fund

Royce Financial Services Fund

Royce European Smaller-Companies Fund

Royce Micro-Cap Fund

Royce Premier Fund

Royce Select Fund I

Royce Select Fund II

Royce Total Return Fund

Royce Heritage Fund

Royce Value Trust

Charles M. Royce is President and Chief Investment Officer of Royce & Associates, LLC and President of The Royce Funds, a position he has held since 1972.

Mr. Royce is the portfolio manager of Royce Pennsylvania Mutual, Royce Total Return, Heritage, 100, Financial Services and International Smaller-Companies Funds, as well as two of the firm’s closed-end portfolios, Royce Value Trust and Royce Micro-Cap Trust. He also co-manages Royce Premier Fund with Whitney George, Royce Select Fund I with Lauren Romeo, Royce Select Fund II with James Harvey and Royce Dividend Value Fund with Jay Kaplan. He has 45 years of investment experience, with 35 years as a small- and micro-cap value portfolio manager.

Prior to 1972, Mr. Royce served as the Director of Research at Scheinman, Hochstin, Trotta, and as a security analyst at Blair & Co. He received a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and earned a Masters of Business Administration degree from Columbia University.

For more than 35 years, Royce & Associates has adhered to a disciplined value approach in managing smaller-company investment portfolios.