Bob M. Zakem

NASDAQ Premium Income & Growth Fund, Inc. is a non-diversified and closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to seek high current income and capital appreciation. The Fund pursues its investment objective principally through a two-part strategy. First, the Fund will invest, under normal circumstances; substantially all of its net assets in a portfolio of investments designed to closely track the performance, before fees and expenses, of the NASDAQ 100 Index. Second, in attempting to generate premium income and reduce the volatility of the fund's returns, with the intent of improving the fund's risk-adjusted returns, the fund will write (sell) call options on the Index, which are fully collateralized by the NASDAQ Investment Portfolio. The company was founded on August 24, 2004 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Dow 30 Enhanced Premium & Income Fund, Inc. operates as a closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to provide a high level of premium and dividend income and the potential for capital appreciation. The fund invests in an equity portfolio that seeks to substantially replicate price movements of the Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM. It also sells covered call options on some or all of the Dow stocks, covering a maximum of 50% of the value of the fund's portfolio in seeking to enhance risk-adjusted performance relative to an all equity portfolio. Dow 30 Enhanced Premium & Income Fund was founded on March 5, 2007 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

MLP & Strategic Equity Fund, Inc. is a closed in diversified, closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to provide a high level of after-tax total return by investing in a portfolio of publicly traded master limited partnerships operating in the energy infrastructure sector of the market. The fund was founded on June 29, 2007 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Virtus Fund Advisers LLC (VFA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1985, the firm was originally named Trusco Capital Management, Inc. and later became RidgeWorth Capital Management, Inc. and RidgeWorth Capital Management LLC. They were formerly a majority-owned subsidiary of SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE: STI). They became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Virtus Partners, Inc., which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTS), when the latter acquired the firm in June 2017 and subsequently changed their name into Virtus Fund Advisers LLC. VFA provides discretionary and non-discretionary advisory services to institutional clients including pension and profit-sharing plans, endowments and foundations, governmental entities, and other corporate entities as well as high net-worth clients.