BBTBX - Managers
Charles B. Groeschell
Manager
Mr. Groeschell is a Senior Portfolio manager at Baird. Prior to joining Baird in 2000, Mr. Groeschell was a Senior Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager with Firstar Investment Research & Management Company (FIRMCO) where he played a lead role in the overall management of major fixed income client relationships. His responsibilities include setting investment policy with a major portion of his time allocated to security analysis, credit research, and implementing the long term investment strategy of the firm.
Jay E. Schwister
Manager
Jay has over 31 years of investment experience managing a broad range of fixed income portfolios. He plays a lead role in all fixed income research and oversees risk management across the firm’s investment strategies. His responsibilities also include the formulation and implementation of investment strategy and the coordination of all portfolio construction. Jay received his undergraduate degree from Marquette University and was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1987. Jay is currently a member of the CFA Institute and is a member of the CFA Society of Milwaukee. Prior to joining Baird Advisors, Jay was a Senior Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager with Putnam Investments in Boston where he was responsible for strategy formulation and portfolio construction across a wide variety of multi-sector fixed income mandates.
Gregory Peters
Manager
Gregory Peters is a Managing Director and Senior Investment Officer of PGIM Fixed Income. He is also senior portfolio manager for Core, Long Government/Credit, Core Plus, Absolute Return, and other multi-sector Fixed Income strategies. Prior to joining PGIM Fixed Income, Mr. Peters was the Chief Global Cross Asset Strategist at Morgan Stanley and responsible for the firm's macro research and asset allocation strategy. In addition, he was Morgan Stanley's Global Director of Fixed Income & Economic Research and served on the Firm Risk, Investment, Asset Allocation, Global Credit, and Global Fixed Income Operating Committees. Earlier, Mr. Peters worked at Salomon Smith Barney and the Department of U.S. Treasury. Mr. Peters has been recognized by Institutional Investor magazine for his efforts in macro, fixed income, high yield and investment grade strategies. Mr. Peters was also recently recognized as Business Insider's Top Analysts and Top Analyst's to Watch by CEO World. Mr. Peters earned a BA in Finance from The College of New Jersey and an MBA from Fordham University. He is also a member of the Fixed Income Analyst Society and the Bond Market Association.
Mary Ellen Stanek
Manager
Ms. Stanek is a Senior Portfolio manager at Baird. Prior to joining Baird in 2000, Ms. Stanek was President and Chief Executive Officer of Firstar Investment Research and Management Company (FIRMCO) and was Director of Fixed Income. Ms. Stanek obtained her undergraduate degree from Marquette University and her MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1983. Ms. Stanek is currently a member of the CFA Institute and is a member of the CFA Society of Milwaukee.
Warren D. Pierson
Manager
Mr. Pierson is a senior portfolio manager with Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, his employer since February 2000. Prior to joining Baird, he was senior vice president and senior portfolio manager with Firstar Investment Research & Management Company. He is a member of Chartered Financial Analyst Institute and the Milwaukee Investment Analysts Society.
Mr. Pierson received his undergraduate degree from Lawrence University and was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1990. Mr. Pierson is currently a member of the CFA Institute and is past President of the CFA Society of Milwaukee.
Richard Piccirillo
Manager
Richard Piccirillo is a Principal and senior portfolio manager for PGIM Fixed Income’s Core, Long Government/Credit, Core Plus, Absolute Return, and other multi-sector Fixed Income strategies. He is also a member of the Global Rates and Securitized Products Team focusing on CMBS. Mr. Piccirillo has specialized in mortgage-and asset- backed securities since joining Prudential Financial in 1993. Before joining Prudential Financial, Mr. Piccirillo was a fixed income analyst with Fischer Francis Trees & Watts. Mr. Piccirillo started his career as a financial analyst at Smith Barney. He received a BBA in Finance from George Washington University and an MBA in Finance and International Business from New York University.
M. Sharon deGuzman
Manager
Ms. deGuzman is a Senior Portfolio manager at Baird. Prior to joining Baird Advisors, Ms. deGuzman was employed by FIRMCO where she served as an Assistant Vice President and Portfolio Manager. Ms. deGuzman performed quantitative fixed income analysis and portfolio management while at FIRMCO. She received her undergraduate degree from Eastern Illinois University. She is a member of the CFA Institute and the Milwaukee Investment Analysts Society.
Michael J. Collins
Manager
Michael J. Collins, CFA, is a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager for Core, Core Plus, Absolute Return, and other Multi-Sector Fixed Income strategies. Previously, Mr. Collins was a High Yield Portfolio Manager and Fixed Income Investment Strategist. Earlier he was a credit research analyst, covering investment grade and high yield corporate credits. Additionally, he developed proprietary quantitative international interest rate and currency valuation models for our global bond unit. Mr. Collins began his career at the Firm in 1986 as a software applications designer. He received a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from the State University of New York at Binghamton and an MBA in Finance from New York University. Mr. Collins holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a Fellow of the Life Management Institute (FLMI). Named Morningstar’s 2017 Fixed Income Manager of The Year for Prudential Total Return Bond Fund.
Lynne A. Royer
Manager
Ms. Royer is Vice President, Portfolio Manager, and Head of the Disciplined Alpha Team at Loomis Sayles. Ms. Royer began her investment industry career in 1985 and joined Loomis Sayles in 2010 from Wells Capital Management, where she was senior portfolio manager and co-head of the Montgomery core fixed income investment team. Previously, Ms. Royer was a lending officer with Morgan Guaranty Trust Company (J.P. Morgan). Earlier, she was a financial analyst in the equity research department at Barclays de Zoete Wedd and an analyst in the corporate finance department at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Ms. Royer is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Gettysburg College and earned an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Barbara E. Miller
Manager
An employee of JPMIM or predecessor firms since 1994 and portfolio manager for the Fund since September 2015, Ms. Miller is currently the head of the U.S. Value Driven Platform within JPMIM’s Global Fixed Income, Currency & Commodities Group (GFICC). She also has served as the manager and a senior portfolio manager for the Fixed Income Mid Institutional Taxable Group since 2007 which provides individually managed fixed income investments for fully discretionary, institutional accounts and personal investment management accounts.
Richard D. Figuly
Manager
Managing Director, became part of the team responsible for management of the Fund in September 2015. An employee of JPMIM or predecessor firms since 1993, Mr. Figuly is a member of the GFICC group and a portfolio manager for the U.S. Value Driven team and is responsible for managing certain J.P. Morgan Funds and institutional taxable bond portfolios.
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