Rick Rieder, Senior Managing Director, is BlackRock's Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, Head of the Fundamental Fixed Income business and Head of the Global Allocation Investment Team.

Responsible for managing roughly $2.4 trillion in assets, Mr. Rieder is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee (GEC) and its GEC Investment Sub-Committee. He also is Chairman of the firm-wide BlackRock Investment Council.

Mr. Rieder currently serves on the Alphabet/Google Investment Advisory Committee and the UBS Research Advisory Board. He was nominated for Outstanding Portfolio Manager by Morningstar in 2021, was awarded the Global Unconstrained Fixed Income Manager of the Year for 2015 by Institutional Investor, was nominated for Fixed Income Manager of the Year by Institutional Investor for 2014 and was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Fixed Income Hall of Fame in 2013.

Mr. Rieder has served as Vice Chairman and member of the Borrowing Committee for the U.S. Treasury and member of the Federal Reserve’s Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets.

Before joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Rieder was President and Chief Executive Officer of R3 Capital Partners. From 1987 to 2008, he was with Lehman Brothers where he was head of the firm's Global Principal Strategies team, a global proprietary investment platform. He was also global head of the firm's credit businesses, Chairman of the Corporate Bond and Loan Capital Commitment Committee and a member of the Board of Trustees for the corporate pension fund. Before joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Rieder was a credit analyst at SunTrust Banks in Atlanta.

Mr. Rieder earned a BBA degree in Finance from Emory University in 1983 and an MBA degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. He is a member of the board of Emory University, Emory's Goizueta Business School, and the University's Finance Committee, and is the Vice Chairman of the Investment Committee. Mr. Rieder is founder and chairman of the Goizueta Business School's BBA investment fund and community financial literacy outreach program, Graduation Generation. Mr. Rieder serves as Chairman and President of the Board of Education for North Star Academy's fourteen Charter Schools in Newark, NJ. He is on the Board of the BlackRock Foundation, the Board of Advisors for the Hospital for Special Surgery, and the Board of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Newark and Essex County. Mr. Rieder formerly served on the Board and National Leadership Council of the Communities in Schools Educational Foundation in Atlanta, and Trustee for the U.S. Olympic Foundation. Mr. Rieder was honored at the Choose Success Awards ceremony in Atlanta in 2015 for his dedication to public education in Atlanta through CIS and Graduation Generation.

Russell Brownback, Managing Director, is head of the Global Macro Positioning team. He is a co lead manager of the BlackRock Strategic Global Bond Fund and other flexible global aggregate mandates.

Prior to joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Brownback was a Senior Partner with R3 Capital Partners. From 1992 to 2008, he was with Lehman Brothers, most recently as a Managing Director and proprietary trader/portfolio manager for the Global Principal Strategies team.

Previously, he was the head of the firm's Corporate Bond trading desk and an industrial sector bond trader. During his tenure , he also traded emerging markets and cross over sovereign bonds.

Mr. Brownback earned a BA degree in economics from Hobart College in 1987 and an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He has been an adjunct professor for both graduate and undergraduate studies at Syracuse University's Whitman School of Business.

David Rogal, Managing Director, is a member of the Multi-Sector team within BlackRock's Global Fixed Income Group. Mr. Rogal is Head of Inflation Linked Portfolios and the lead investor for Core and Core Plus Strategies. He is a lead portfolio manager of BlackRock's Core Bond, Inflation Protected, Strategic Income Opportunities, Total Return Fund, and the iShares Total Return Active ETF. Mr. Rogal focuses on broad macro positioning, with specialties in interest rates, inflation, and volatility trading.

Mr. Rogal joined Fixed Income in 2009. Previously, he was a member of BlackRock's Multi Asset Strategies group, where he developed quantitative models and advised insurance companies, pension funds, and banks on asset-allocation and asset-liability management. Mr. Rogal began his career at BlackRock in 2006 as an analyst in the Financial Institutions Group.

Mr. Rogal earned a BA degree in economics and biology from Cornell University in 2006, with concentrations in statistics and genetics. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society, for which he currently serves on the alumni board of directors.