Andrew Slimmon is the head of Applied Equity Advisors and is lead senior portfolio manager on all long equity strategies for the team. He is joined Morgan Stanley in 1991 and has more than 35 years of investment experience. He began his career at Morgan Stanley as an advisor in Private Wealth Management and later served as the chief investment officer of the Morgan Stanley Trust Company. Prior to joining the firm, Andrew was a buy-side equity research analyst with ARCO Investment Management. He began his career as an analyst and then portfolio manager for Brown Brothers Harriman. He often appears on CNBC, CNBC Asia, and Bloomberg TV and is quoted regularly in the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Bloomberg and Reuters. Andrew holds a B.A. degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.