The FIS Group, Inc. entities founded in 1996 by Tina Byles Williams, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, offer emerging manager services to institutional investors. FIS Group, Inc., is the successor registrant under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Fiduciary Investment Solutions, Inc. ("FIS") and FIS Funds Management, Inc. ("FISFM"), each of which was first registered as an investment advisor on March 4, 1996. FIS Group, Inc. was formed at the beginning of 2005, at which time "FIS Group" transitioned from the "doing business as" nomenclature for FIS and FISFM to the parent entity for each such company.

Ms. Byles Williams has been involved in structuring emerging manager programs since the early 1980's. Her early work with emerging managers includes her service as an investment officer at a plan sponsor in addition to an investment advisory firm.

At its inception in 1996, FIS provided investment advisory services on an emerging manager program for a large institutional investor for which it had less than full discretion to hire and terminate managers. In 1999, the firm began managing fully discretionary manager of emerging managers accounts.

Today, in addition to providing asset management and investment advisory services to several distinguished institutional clients, FIS Group has diversified its product offering by adding an environmental strategy, which invests in the emissions, water, and clean technology markets. The firm and Greater Philadelphia Venture Capital Corporation are also partnering to offer a  a mezzanine debt strategy, which will provide capital to Small Business Investment Corporations licensed by the SBA.