Company: NCZ-PA
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-032992
Chunk: 26

Company: Virtus Convertible & Income Fund II
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 26
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 Inc.; Chief Operating Officer (2018 to 2021), Russell Investments; Executive Director (Jan. to July 2018), State of Wisconsin Investment Board; and Partner and Chief Operating Officer (2004 to 2018), William Blair Investment Management. | ​ |
| Thaker, Nikita K.      
 YOB: 1978              | ​ | ​ | Vice President, Controller and Assistant Treasurer (since 2021), AIO, NCV, NCZ, ACV, NFJ and NIE 
 Vice President and Controller (since 2021) and Assistant Treasurer (since 2017), VGI             
 Vice President, Controller and Assistant Treasurer (since 2022), EDF                             
 Vice President and Controller (since 2021) and Assistant Treasurer (since 2013), ZTR             | ​ | ​ | Vice President (since 2021) and Assistant Vice President (2016 to 2021), Mutual Fund Administration, Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. and/or certain of its subsidiaries; and various officer positions (since 2013) of various registered funds advised by subsidiaries of Virtus Investment Partners, Inc.                                           | ​ |

Information about each Fund’s Independent Registered Public Accountant The 1940 Act requires that each Fund’s independent registered public accounting firm be selected by the vote, cast in person, of a majority of the members of the Board who are not interested persons of the Fund. In addition, the listing standards of the NYSE vest the Audit Committee, in its capacity as a committee of the Board, with responsibility for the appointment, compensation, retention and oversight of the work of the Fund’s independent registered public accounting firm. AIO’s, NCV’s, NCZ’s, ACV’s, NFJ’s and NIE’s financial statements for the year ended January 31, 2025, and VGI’s, EDF’s and ZTR’s financial statements for the year ended November 30, 2024, have been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”), an independent registered public accounting firm. PwC has been selected to perform the audit of the financial statements of AIO, NCV, NCZ, ACV, NFJ and NIE for the year ending

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January 31, 2026, and of the financial statements of VGI, ZTR and EDF for the year ending November 30, 2025. Representatives of PwC are not expected to be present