Heather Lawrence

Heather Lawrence joined Fidelity in 2000 as an equity research intern covering the satellite industry. She joined the company full-time in August 2001 and managed Select Transportation Portfolio from December 2001 to December 2003; Select Air Transportation Portfolio from August 2002 to December 2003; and Select Banking Porfolio from March 2004 to February 2006. Ms. Lawrence began managing Select Computers Portfolio in August 2006. Prior to joining Fidelity, she was an equity research associate with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Discover & Co., in New York, where she was responsible for maintaining coverage of real estate investment trusts (REITs) and real estate finance companies. Ms. Lawrence constructed models, marketing information, databases, and new valuation analysis. She began her career in financial services in 1994 at Alex Brown & Sons Incorporated in Baltimore, Maryland. Ms. Lawrence was an investment banking analyst responsible for developing and executing a wide variety of advisory transactions including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, and valuations. In 1996, she became an associate in the acquisitions division of a $1.4 billion private equity fund at Westbrook Partners LLC, in New York. Ms. Lawrence was responsible for analyzing, structuring, and executing a wide variety of private debt, and equity real estate transactions. She received a BSc in economics from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia Business School.