Daniel Davidowitz Joins Polen Capital Management as Research Analyst.

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Polen Capital Management, Inc., a $2 billion investment advisory firm that has produced one of the best performance records in the Large Cap asset class for more than fifteen years, today announced that Daniel Davidowitz has joined the firm as a Research Analyst. Mr. Davidowitz joins the Company's equity research team, which is led by Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager David M. Polen, who founded the firm in 1979.

"With his years of experience as an Equity Research Analyst, we are delighted that Dan is joining Polen Capital and want to welcome him wholeheartedly to the Company," said Mr. Polen. "Dan also possesses a strong foundation in investment research that reflects our own investment philosophy, including a particular emphasis on the intrinsic valuation of companies and investing with a margin of safety -- similar to the investment philosophies of Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett. We feel strongly that Dan will be a real asset to our investment team."

Prior to joining Polen Capital Management, Mr. Davidowitz served as Vice President and Research Analyst at Osprey Partners Investment Management, an institutional investment management firm with more than $3 billion of assets under management. In this role, Mr. Davidowitz employed bottom-up fundamental analysis for Osprey's large capitalization value equity, concentrated large capitalization value equity and small capitalization value equity investment strategies. Prior to this position, Mr. Davidowitz was a Research Analyst at Value Line, Inc., an investment publisher. Previously, he spent five years in the health care sector holding various analytical positions at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Mr. Davidowitz received his B.S. with high honors in Public Health from Rutgers University and a Masters in Business Administration from the City University of New York, Baruch College Zicklin School of Business. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the CFA Institute and the New York Society of Security Analysts.

About Polen Capital Management, Inc.

Polen Capital Management (www.polencapital.com) is a boutique investment management firm located in Boca Raton, FL. The firm currently manages $2 billion in large cap equity utilizing a proprietary investment process driven by bottom-up fundamental research. The firm has amassed a highly regarded seventeen-year track record emphasizing margin-of-safety investing.