Tax-Advantaged Bond and Option Strategies Fund

Biography

James H. Evans, CFA

Vice President, Eaton Vance Management
Joined Eaton Vance 2008

Jim Evans is a vice president of Eaton Vance Management, director of the Tax-Advantaged Bond Strategies Division and portfolio manager on Eaton Vance's tax-advantaged bond strategies team.

Jim joined Eaton Vance in December 2008 when it acquired M.D. Sass Tax Advantaged Bond Strategies, LLC (TABS), where he was senior portfolio manager and managed TABS. Jim joined the M.D. Sass Group in 1990 to manage its clients' municipal bond portfolios. Previously, he was affiliated with Kidder, Peabody & Company, where he was vice president in charge of its municipal arbitrage account, and with Continental Bank and Mellon Bank, where he was a municipal bond trader/underwriter.

Jim earned a B.S. in engineering from Cornell University. He is a CFA charterholder and has over 25 years of investment experience.

Jim's commentary has appeared in Bloomberg,, The Bond Buyer, and Barron's, among other publications.

Biography

Ken Everding, Ph.D

Managing Director, Parametric Risk Advisors, LLC
Joined Parametric Risk Advisors 2005

Ken Everding is managing director of Parametric Risk Advisors, an investment adviser and subsidiary of Parametric Portfolio Associates, LLC, a majority-owned subsidiary of Eaton Vance Corp.

Prior to joining Parametric in 2005, Ken was a managing director at Zurich Capital Markets and BNP Paribas, following Zurich's acquisition. At Zurich, Ken's team was the pioneer in creating structured hedge fund products. Before Zurich, Ken was a founding member of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette's credit derivative group and subsequently moved to London to form and run DLJ's European credit derivatives business. There, he was responsible for its trading, structuring and marketing efforts.

Ken earned a B.S. with honors in physics from Iowa State University and holds a doctorate in theoretical particle physics from Yale University. The title of his Ph.D. thesis is "Aspects of Non-Perturbative Quantum Electrodynamics," excerpts of which have been published in leading academic journals.

Biography

Jonathan Orseck

Managing Director, Parametric Risk Advisors, LLC
Joined Parametric Risk Advisors 2006

Jon Orseck is managing director of Parametric Risk Advisors, an investment adviser and subsidiary of Parametric Portfolio Associates, LLC, a majority-owned subsidiary of Eaton Vance Corp.

Prior to joining Parametric in 2006, Jon was a managing director at Banc of America Securities, where he founded and managed the Equity Linked Solutions Group. He was responsible for the development, structuring, marketing and sales of equity and commodity index-linked structured investments. Before Bank of America, Jon was an executive director at Morgan Stanley responsible for structuring and marketing structured notes to institutional clients. He also managed their high- net-worth, over-the-counter equity derivative business for hedging and investment purposes for the eastern half of North America. From 1993-1996, Jon held similar roles at Kidder, Peabody and Royal Bank of Canada.

Jon earned a B.S. in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from New York University Stern School of Business.