Rick Rieder, 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. Mr. Rieder is responsible for roughly $2.4 trillion in assets. He is a member of BlackRock’s Executive Sub-Committee on Investments, a member of BlackRock's Global Operating Committee, and Chairman of the firm-wide BlackRock Investment Council.

Before joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Rieder was President and Chief Executive Officer of R3 Capital Partners. He 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.

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. Four of the funds Mr. Rieder manages (Strategic Income Opportunities, Fixed Income Global Opportunities, Total Return, and Strategic Global Bond) have been awarded Gold Medals by Morningstar.

From 1987 to 2008, Mr. Rieder was with Lehman Brothers, most recently as 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 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 business school's BBA investment fund and community financial literacy program.

Mr. Rieder serves as Chairman and President of the Board of Education for North Star Academy's fourteen Charter Schools in Newark, New Jersey, and is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Graduation Generation Public School Collaboration in Atlanta. 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, and Trustee for the US 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.

Ibrahim Incoglu, Managing Director, is Co-Head of the Securitized Assets Team in Global Fixed Income. Since 2014 Mr. Incoglu is Head of the Non-Agency RMBS business, and continues to act as a Lead Non-Agency RMBS Portfolio Manager in addition to his other responsibilities. Mr. Incoglu is a member of the Blackrock Housing- Mortgage Finance Economic Committee.

Prior to joining Blackrock in 2009, Mr. Incoglu spent more than six years on the sell side at Wachovia Securities, most recently as a Director. He was responsible for managing the synthetic RMBS desk, market making and hedging activities. From 2003 to 2006, Mr. Incoglu was a Senior Trader at Wachovia and traded various RMBS products including Alt-a, Sub-prime and 2nd liens. From 2002 to 2003, Mr. Incoglu was an Associate at Bank of America Securities, where he structured Non-Agency deals, and ran arbitrage to buy and securitize mortgage whole loans. Mr. Incoglu began his career at Ocwen Federal Bank in 2000. He focused on trading of IO's, servicing strips, as well as hedging activities of the derivatives.

Mr. Incoglu earned a BS degree in Civil Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul in 1998, and an MBA degree in business administration from the University of Tulsa, OK in 1999.

Charlotte Widjaja, Vice President, is a Portfolio Manager in the Office of the CIO of Global Fixed Income, focusing on the asset allocation and portfolio construction of Multi-Sector and Yield-Focused mandates. Charlotte is also a member of the GFI ESG Implementation Committee, in which she is responsible for the ESG transition, integration, and portfolio construction of both ESG and non-ESG funds across the Global and Multi-sector platforms. She is also an Associate PM on the BlackRock Strategic Income Opportunities Fund.

Charlotte joined through Blackrock's Analyst Program in 2017. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Babson College in 2017.