Aziz Hamzaogullari is the Founder of the Growth Equity Strategies Team and Chief Investment Officer at Loomis, Sayles & Company. He is the Portfolio Manager of the Loomis Sayles Large Cap Growth, All Cap Growth, Global Growth and International Growth long-only strategies as well as the Long/Short Growth Equity strategy. Offerings include the Loomis Sayles US Growth Equity, US Equity Leaders and Global Growth Equity funds, along with US products. Aziz is also a member of the firm’s Board of Directors.

Aziz joined Loomis Sayles in 2010 from Evergreen Investments where he was a senior portfolio manager. He joined Evergreen in 2001, was promoted to director of research in 2003 and portfolio manager in 2006. Aziz was head of Evergreen’s Berkeley Street Growth Equity team and was the founder of the research and investment process. Prior to Evergreen, Aziz was a senior equity analyst and portfolio manager at Manning & Napier Advisors. He has 32 years of investment industry experience.

Aziz is a member of the Board of Trustees at Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He earned a BS from Bilkent University, Türkiye, and an MBA from George Washington University. Aziz is also a CFA^® charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of Boston.