Tom Parker, CFA, Managing Director, is Chief Investment Officer of Model-Based Fixed Income ("MBFI") at BlackRock. In this capacity Mr. Parker is responsible for all portfolio management and research ("alpha teams") as well as portfolio construction across the MBFI platform. Prior to taking on his current role, Mr. Parker was Deputy CIO. He is currently an active member of the MBFI Investment, Research Approval, Model Management, and Executive committees. 

Mr. Parker's service with the firm dates back to 2001, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. At BGI, he was the global co-head of credit investments covering both investment grade and high yield markets and a member of BGI's Fixed Income Research Approval Committee. He led the development and implementation of BGI's quantitative approach to corporate credit investing. Mr. Parker managed both long-only and long/short credit strategies used across BGI's fixed income funds, including the 3D Capital Fund (a credit long/short strategy), the Capital Structure Fund and the Fixed Income Global Alpha Fund. Prior to BGI, he worked at JP Morgan and prior to that at CSFB. 

Mr. Parker earned a BS degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980 and an MBA degree in finance and international business from the University of Chicago in 1985.

Chad Meuse, Managing Director, is Head of Equity and Capital Structure for BlackRock's Systematic Fixed Income ("SFI") Portfolio Management Team and is an active member of the SFI Levered Funds Executive Committee and the SFI Investment Committee. He is primarily responsible for managing the Equity and Capital Structure strategies in the Fixed Income Global Alpha Fund (FIGA) and the Systematic Multi-Strategy Fund (SMS).

Mr. Meuse's service with the firm dates back to 2007, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. At BGI, he was a portfolio manager on the US Fixed Income Advanced Active Investment team. He helped develop and launch the Capital Structure Investment hedge fund. Previously, he managed a quantitatively based equity long/short hedge fund for Stoic Capital Management. Prior to that, he was a buy side equity analyst for Eagle Asset Management working on both mutual fund and hedge fund products. He began his investment career in 1998 on the sell side with UBS as a part of the Institutional Investor ranked Global Energy Equity Research team in New York.

Mr. Meuse earned a BS degree in finance and a BA degree in philosophy, magna cum laude, from the University of Colorado in 1997 and a MBA degree from Stanford University in 2007.

Scott Radell, Managing Director, is the Head of San Francisco Core Portfolio Management (Core PM) within BlackRock’s Systematic investment team. He is responsible for the management and oversight of all the Americas Index, iShares, and model based active fixed income funds.

Mr. Radell's service with the firm dates back to 2003, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. Prior to his current role, he was a portfolio manager responsible for BGI's active investment grade long-only and long-short portfolios. Prior to joining BGI, Mr. Radell served for over seven years as an analyst for corporate bond and Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities for Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Mr. Radell began his career as a fixed income client service and mortgage analyst at BARRA.

Mr. Radell earned a BA degree in quantitative economics and decision sciences from the University of California at San Diego in 1992.

Jeffrey Rosenberg, CFA, Managing Director is a senior portfolio manager within BlackRock Systematic. He is the co-lead for Systematic Fixed Income active long-only products including mutual funds, institutional portfolios and ETFs. In this role he serves as a member of the SFI Investment and Executive Committees and as a co-lead portfolio manager for several of our investment products including the Systematic Multi-Strategy Fund and iShares Investment Grade and High Yield Systematic Bond ETFs (IGEB and HYDB).

Mr. Rosenberg's service with the firm dates back to 2011, when he joined the Fundamental fixed income group as Chief Investment Strategist for fixed income. In 2016, this role transitioned into the BlackRock Investment Institute. His responsibilities included helping to develop BlackRock's strategic and tactical views on sector allocation within fixed income, currencies and commodities.

Prior to joining BlackRock, Mr. Rosenberg spent nearly 10 years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch as the Chief Credit Strategist coordinating strategy across all fixed income, securitized assets, credit, FX and commodities. In addition, Mr. Rosenberg specialized in quantitative credit modeling and developed the first commercialized credit portfolio analytics system from a dealer firm.

Mr. Rosenberg earned a Master of Science degree in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon, a BA in Mathematics from the Univ. of Minnesota, and a BA in Finance from the Univ. of Wisconsin.