James Pruskowski, Managing Director and portfolio manager, is a member of Americas Fixed Income within Alpha Strategies. He is head portfolio manager on the Municipal Institutional Portfolio Team. He is a member of the firm's Municipal Bond Operating Committee, which oversees all municipal bond portfolio management, research and trading.

Prior to joining the Municipal Bond Portfolio Team in 2003, Mr. Pruskowski focused on interest rate products within BlackRock Fundamental Fixed Income. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Pruskowski was a member of BlackRock's Portfolio Analytics Group, where he began his career.

Mr. Pruskowski earned a BA degree in finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1995.