THE MAN BEHIND COWBOY ETHICS
Jim Owen is a Managing Director of Austin
Capital Management, an affiliate of Victory
Capital Management, and serves as the firm's
Director of Corporate Values. He is also
Founder and President of the Center for
Cowboy Ethics and Leadership and author
of the book Cowboy Ethics: What Wall Street
Can Learn from the Code of the West.

Jim's Wall Street career has spanned nearly 40 years, including 15 years as a partner with NWQ
Investment Management Company in Los Angeles. He is co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of
the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA). Profiled in the Wall Street Journal as
a leading Wall Street "rainmaker," Jim has also been a prolific speaker and author. His book credits
include The Prudent Investor's Guide to Hedge Funds: Profiting form Uncertainty and Volatility
(John Wiley & Sons, 2000) and The Prudent Investor: The Definitive Guide to Professional Investment
Management (McGraw-Hill, 1990).

Jim is a summa cum laude graduate of Regis University. He is a past President of the Board of Trustees of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He has also servied as a member of the Santa Barbara Foundation's Investment Committee. He and his wife, Stanya, reside in Austin, Texas.