Samir Lakhani, Managing Director, is co-head of the Securitized Asset Team and Head of Credit within BlackRock’s Global Fixed Income (GFI) platform.

Since 2012, Mr. Lakhani has led the CMBS and Senior CRE Debt business and serves as a Lead CMBS / CRE Debt Portfolio Manager. Mr. Lakhani serves as a senior portfolio manager on both the BlackRock Securitized Income Fund and the iShares Flexible Income Active ETF (BINC). Mr. Lakhani is a member of various BlackRock investment committees including the Commercial Mortgage Loan Committee within BlackRock’s GFI platform.

Prior to joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Lakhani was a Vice President at R3 Capital Partners, where he invested in securitized assets including ABS, CMBS, CLO's and Specialty Finance transactions. Mr. Lakhani held similar roles at Lehman Brothers in their Global Principal Strategies group. Mr. Lakhani joined Lehman Brothers in 2006 initially in Structured Credit Products. Previously, Mr. Lakhani held positions at JP Morgan Partners, in their Private Equity and Mezzanine Debt group, from 2001 to 2004.

Mr. Lakhani served on the Board of Governors for the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (CREFC) from 2012-2018.

Mr. Lakhani earned a B.S. Degree in Economics and a B.S. Degree in Engineering, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.

Ibrahim Incoglu, Managing Director, is co-head of the Securitized Asset Team within BlackRock’s Global Fixed Income (GFI) platform.

Since 2014, Mr. Incoglu has led the non-Agency RMBS business and serves as the Lead non-Agency RMBS Portfolio Manager. Mr. Incoglu serves as a senior portfolio manager on the BlackRock Securitized Income Fund and is Chair of the Blackrock Housing-Mortgage Finance Economic Committee within BlackRock’s GFI platform.

Prior to joining Blackrock in 2009, Mr. Incoglu was a Director at Wachovia Securities where 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, trading various RMBS products including Jumbo, 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 RMBS transactions, and ran arbitrage strategies to buy and securitize residential mortgage whole loans. Mr. Incoglu began his career at Ocwen Federal Bank in 2000, focused on trading Interest Only cashflows (IO's), servicing strips, as well as hedging activities.

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.