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Lead fund manager biography

Mark R. Kiesel is CIO Global Credit at Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (“PIMCO”) and a managing director in the Newport Beach office. He is a member of the Investment Committee, a generalist portfolio manager and the global head of corporate bond portfolio management. He joined PIMCO in 1996 and previously served as PIMCO’s global head of investment grade corporate bonds and as a senior credit analyst. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan.

Fund manager biography

Mr. Arora is an executive vice president at Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (“PIMCO”) and portfolio manager in the Newport Beach office and a member of the credit and liability-driven portfolio management teams. He manages credit portfolios focusing on investment grade and long credit. He was previously a senior member of PIMCO's global risk management team. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2009, he was an executive director, responsible for credit hybrids and exotics trading at J.P. Morgan. Mr. Arora was previously with Bear Stearns as a managing director on the structured credit trading desk, responsible for credit derivative products in investment grade and high yield credits. He has also worked on the foreign exchange Treasury desk at Citibank. He holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay). He is a Certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM).