Chief Compliance Officer

John Tavernetti joined Osterweis Capital Management as Chief Compliance Officer in 2005. Prior to that, he was Vice President and Senior Compliance Officer at RCM Capital Management, LLC, a member of Allianz Global Investors, for a period of five years. From 1996 to 1999 he worked for Montgomery Asset Management, LLC, in San Francisco, first as a mutual fund Marketing Specialist and then as a Compliance Officer.

As the Chief Compliance Officer, Mr. Tavernetti supervises all regulatory and legal compliance issues with respect to the firm and its employees. He is a principal of the firm.

Mr. Tavernetti graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A. in Political Science).