Rick Rieder, Senior 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.

Responsible for managing roughly $2.4 trillion in assets, Mr. Rieder is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee (GEC) and its GEC Investment Sub-Committee. He also is Chairman of the firm-wide BlackRock Investment Council.

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.

Mr. Rieder has 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.

Before joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Rieder was President and Chief Executive Officer of R3 Capital Partners. From 1987 to 2008, he was with Lehman Brothers where he was 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 Goizueta 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 Goizueta Business School's BBA investment fund and community financial literacy outreach program, Graduation Generation. Mr. Rieder serves as Chairman and President of the Board of Education for North Star Academy's fourteen Charter Schools in Newark, NJ. 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 in Atlanta, and Trustee for the U.S. 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.

Jacob Caplain, Managing Director, is Head of Investing Strategy for Fundamental Fixed Income. Mr. Caplain works to advance the usage and interpretation of analytics related to portfolio construction optimization, including the implementation of AI tools.

Mr. Caplain is part of the multi-sector fixed income portfolio management team, with a focus on income strategies across active ETFs, open-end funds, and separately managed accounts. In addition, Mr. Caplain focuses on modeling client portfolios, collaborating with product strategy on investment narratives, and interfacing with new and existing clients to showcase BlackRock Fundamental Fixed Income's investment process and products.

Prior to joining the portfolio management team, Mr. Caplain was a member of the Risk and Quantitative Analysis team at BlackRock, focusing on the multi-sector fixed income platform. In this capacity, he focused on risk, portfolio construction, and the risk dashboard.

Mr. Caplain earned a BA degree, magna cum laude, in Financial Economics from Columbia University.

Samir Lakhani, Managing Director, is Co-Head of the Securitized Assets Team within Global Fixed Income. Since 2012, Mr. Lakhani has been co-head of the CMBS and Senior CRE Debt business and continues to act as a Lead CMBS / CRE Debt Portfolio Manager in addition to his other responsibilities. Mr. Lakhani is Chair of the Commercial Mortgage Loan Committee within Global Fixed Income, and a member of the BlackRock Real Estate Debt Investment Committee within BlackRock's Real Assets Group.

Prior to joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Lakhani was a Vice President at R3 Capital Partners, responsible for investing in securitized assets. 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.

Dylan Price, Director, is a Portfolio Manager on BlackRock's Global Fixed Income team. Mr. Price is a co-manager of the Flexible Income ETF, the Strategic Income Opportunities Fund, the Strategic Global Bond Fund, the World Bond Fund, the Global Government Bond Fund, and the Impact Bond Fund.

In addition to his portfolio management responsibilities, Dylan is also a co-author of the Rick Rieder Monthly Markets Call.

Mr. Price earned a BBA degree, with distinction, in Finance from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.

Charlotte Widjaja, Director, is a Portfolio Manager on BlackRock's Global Fixed Income team. Notably, Ms. Widjaja is a portfolio manager on the Flexible Income Active ETF and the Global Bond Income fund, as well as an associate portfolio manager on the Strategic Income Opportunities fund.

Ms. Widjaja focuses on the asset allocation and portfolio construction for Unconstrained and Income-Focused mandates. Ms. Widjaja is involved in driving platform macro positioning and specializes in thematic strategies.

In addition to her portfolio management responsibilities, Ms. Widjaja also builds competitor analysis tools, which are used to inform platform performance and positioning relative to key peers in the industry. Ms. Widjaja is also a co-author of the Rick Rieder Monthly Markets Call.

Ms. Widjaja earned a BS degree in Finance from Babson College.