Jose Aguilar

Jose Aguilar, Managing Director, is the head of European High Yield Strategies within BlackRock's Global Credit Platform. He is a portfolio manager for the European High Yield, Global High Yield, Global Long Short Credit Fund and Credit Strategies Income Fund.

Prior to joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Aguilar was a senior research analyst at R3 Capital Partners focusing on Leverage Finance and Special Situations. He began his career at Lehman Brothers in 2005 in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group covering Financial Institutions and subsequently moved to Global Principal Strategies (GPS).

Mr. Aguilar earned degrees in Business Administration and Law from Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, Spain in 2005.