Adam Ward is an investment analyst for Capital Research and Management Company, where he covers the oil services sector, US utilities, and midstream energy sector. Adam joined Capital Group in June 2011 after an internship in the summer of 2010. Prior to the Capital Group, Adam worked for Parthenon Capital, a private equity fund, and specialized in acquiring companies in the financial services sector. Before Parthenon, Adam worked as a buy-side analyst on the Proprietary Trading Desk at Lehman Brothers covering the technology and telecommunication sectors. Mr. Ward received an M.B.A. from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar and the 2011 recipient of the Alexander A. Robichek Achievement in Finance Award. He received a B.A. in Accounting from Brigham Young University where he was the winner of the 2004 outstanding undergraduate accounting student as the program’s top student.