AST BlackRock Value Portfolio - Prudential Annuities

Mark Finn is a Vice President of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. He is the portfolio manager of the Value Fund and chairman of the
fund’s Investment Advisory Committee. Mark is also a vice president and Investment Advisory Committee member of the Equity
Income Fund, New Era Fund, Capital Appreciation Fund, and Mid-Cap Value Fund. From 2005 to 2009, he was an equity
research analyst specializing in electric power generation, utilities, and coal. Prior to this, he was an analyst in T. Rowe Price’s
Fixed Income Division where he also covered utilities and power generation. Prior to joining the firm in 1990, Mark had five years
of auditing experience with Price Waterhouse LLP. Mark earned a BS from the University of Delaware and has obtained the
Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Public Accountant designations.
John Linehan is a Vice President of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. He is also a Portfolio Manager in
the Equity Division. John is President of the Value Fund and is head of the T. Rowe Price U.S. Equity Division and Chairman of the
Equity Steering Committee. He also co-manages several of the firm’s separate account portfolios as a member of the Large-Cap
Strategy Team and is the Lead Portfolio Manager for the SICAV U.S. Large-Cap Value Equity Fund. In addition, John is also a Vice
President and member of the Investment Advisory Committee of the Equity Income Fund, New Era Fund and Global Stock Fund.
In addition, he is a Vice President of the Capital Appreciation Fund. John joined the firm in 1998 and has nine years of previous
investment experience at Bankers Trust and E.T. Petroleum. He earned a BA from Amherst College and an MBA from Stanford
University where he was the Henry Ford II Scholar, an Arjay Miller Scholar, and the winner of the Alexander A. Robichek Award in
Finance. He has also earned the Chartered Financial Analyst accreditation.
William Blair Segment. W. George Greig is responsible for the day-to-day management of the portion of the Portfolio managed by
William Blair. Mr.Greig, a principal of William Blair, has headed the firm’s international investment management team since
1996. He serves as the Portfolio Manager for the William Blair International Growth Fund as well as leading the Portfolio Team on
separately managed portfolios. Before joining William Blair, he headed international equities for PNC Bank in Philadelphia from
1995 to 1996 and previously served as Investment Director with London-based Framlington Group PLC as well as managing
global and emerging markets funds there. He has over twenty-five years of experience in domestic and international investment
research and portfolio management. Education: BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MBA, Wharton School of the University
of Pennsylvania.
LSV Segment. The portfolio managers responsible for the day-to-day management of the portion of the Portfolio managed by LSV
are Josef Lakonishok, Menno Vermeulen, CFA, and Puneet Mansharamani, CFA.
Mr. Lakonishok has served as CEO, CIO, Partner and Portfolio Manager for LSV since its founding in 1994. He has more than 31
years of investment and research experience.
Mr. Vermeulen has served as a Portfolio Manager and Senior Quantitative Analyst of LSV since 1995 and a Partner since 1998. He
has more than 20 years of investment experience.
Mr. Mansharamani, CFA has served as a Partner and Portfolio Manager of LSV since 2006 and as a Senior Quantitative Analyst of
LSV since 2000. He has more than 12 years of investment experience.
PIMCO Segment. Mihir Worah, Scott Mather, and Chris Dialynas are the portfolio managers responsible for the portion of the
Portfolio managed by PIMCO.
Mr. Worah is a managing director in the Newport Beach office, a portfolio manager, and head of the Real Return portfolio
management team. He was previously a member of the analytics team and worked on real and nominal term structure modeling
and options pricing. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2001, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of California,
Berkeley, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, where he built models to explain the difference between matter and
anti-matter. He has 10 years of investment experience and holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago.
Mr. Mather is a managing director in the Newport Beach office and head of global portfolio management. Previously, he led
portfolio management in Europe, managed euro and pan-European portfolios and worked closely with many Allianz-related
companies. He also served as a managing director of Allianz Global Investors KAG. Prior to these roles, Mr. Mather co-headed
PIMCO’s mortgage- and asset-backed securities team. Prior to joining PIMCO in 1998, he was a fixed income trader specializing
in mortgage-backed securities at Goldman Sachs in New York. He has 17 years of investment experience and holds a master’s
degree in engineering, as well as undergraduate degrees, from the University of Pennsylvania.
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