Jeff Cucunato

Jeff Cucunato, Managing Director, is Head of Multi-Strategy Debt Solutions within BlackRock’s Private Debt platform. He is also the lead portfolio manager for institutional and retail Multi-Strategy Credit funds. He is responsible for managing portfolios that allocate to opportunities across the global credit markets.  Mr. Cucunato also chairs the credit platform's Investment Strategy Group, which focuses on evaluating investment opportunities across global investment grade, high yield, bank loans and illiquid credit and serves on BlackRock's Private Debt Executive Committee.

Previously, Mr. Cucunato was Head of Investment Grade Credit where he led the firm's U.S. fundamental investment grade credit effort for over 10 years and spent 15 years as the lead portfolio manager for BlackRock's investment grade credit and long duration portfolios.  He began his investment career in 1997 focusing on interest rate products, including management of BlackRock's inflation-linked bond portfolios. He joined BlackRock in 1995 as an analyst in the Institutional Client Business group, working with international clients and alternative investments. 

Mr. Cucunato earned a BA degree, cum laude, in history from Dartmouth College in 1995.