Nicholas F. Galluccio has been a director of Teton since October 2008. From July 2008 to September 2021, Mr. Galluccio was President and Chief Executive Officer of Teton Advisors, Inc. Mr. Galluccio is the Chairman of Teton Advisors, LLC and is also the portfolio manager of the Teton Small Cap Select Value Strategy and the Keeley Teton Small-Mid Cap Value Strategy. Mr. Galluccio joined Teton Advisors, Inc. in 2008, after a 25-year career at Trust Company of the West (TCW) where he was Group Managing Director, U.S. Equities, and led the investment team for the TCW SmallCap Value Added and TCW MidCap Value Opportunities equity strategies. He was senior portfolio manager and co-managed both strategies since their inception. Mr. Galluccio served on the TCW Asset Management Company (TAMCO) Board of Directors. Prior to TCW, he was with Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb where he was a security analyst specializing in the semiconductor industry. Prior to Lehman Brothers, Mr. Galluccio was a staff writer for Forbes magazine. He holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, an M.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. from the University of Hartford. He serves on the University of Hartford Board of Regents.