Orhan is a Vice President and a Senior Portfolio Manager for LDI & Multi-Sector Strategies with the Global Fixed Income, Cash & Currency (FICC) team at SSGA. Orhan is also a Senior Portfolio Manager with the Fixed Income Beta Solutions group with responsibilities for managing several fixed income funds and ETFs including Global Rates/Inflation, US Core and Credit portfolios. He is a member of the Technical Committee which oversees all SSGA's quantitative investment research. Prior to joining SSGA in 2017, Orhan held several roles during his tenure at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. Most r

Abhishek Kumar, CFA, is a Managing Director and the Sector Head for Emerging Markets Debt within the Fixed Income Beta Solutions Team at SSGA LTD. He is the lead portfolio manager for emerging markets debt, managing both hard currency and local currency emerging markets funds, and also works to develop new strategies and solutions for clients in emerging markets debt. He joined SSGA LTD in 2010. Prior to joining the investment management team, Mr. Kumar spent three years at ICICI Bank UK PLC managing global credit portfolios. Mr. Kumar holds a Masters in Management from ESCP Europe Paris, a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (equivalent to a Master of Business Administration) from Indian Institute of Management in Lucknow, India and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India. He has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a member of the CFA Society UK and the CFA Institute.

James Kramer is a Vice President of SSGA and SSGA FM and and a Senior Portfolio Manager in the Fixed Income Beta Solutions Group within the Global Fixed Income, Cash and Currency Team. In his current role, he is responsible for managing global treasuries, inflation and aggregate bond portfolios for ETFs, commingled funds and separately managed accounts. Prior to joining the Global Fixed Income, Cash and Currency Team, Mr. Kramer was the Head of North America Fixed Income Trading. He was responsible for a team of traders that execute all cash bonds and derivative instruments for the Active and Passive Fixed Income Groups. Prior to heading the trading desk, Mr. Kramer was a senior portfolio manager in the Interest Rate Strategies Group at SSGA. His primary responsibilities included the portfolio management of active government and inflation linked strategies. Other responsibilities included directing U.S. interest rate strategies globally for SSGA. Mr. Kramer has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Fitchburg State College. He started his career at State Street Bank and Trust Company and has been working in the investment industry since 1993.

Kheng Siang Ng, CFA, is a Vice President and the APAC Head of the Fixed Income Beta Solutions Team at SSGA Singapore. He joined SSGA Singapore in 2005. Mr. Ng leads the portfolio management team in APAC, manages both hard currency and local currency emerging market bond mandates in Singapore, works to develop new fixed income solutions for clients and helps grow overall fixed income business in the region. Prior to joining SSGA, Mr. Ng spent three plus years at ABN AMRO Asset Management in Singapore managing active global rates portfolios and Asian currencies. Before that, he worked for six plus years at Bank Negara Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur as portfolio manager managing global bonds and portfolios of foreign exchange reserves, and served as Head of Financial Markets Analysis section. Mr. Ng holds First Class Honours in B.Sc (Economics) Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designations, and is a member of CFA Society of Malaysia, CFA Society of Singapore, the CFA Institute and the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association.

Vernon Loh is an Assistant Vice President and fixed income trader at SSGA Singapore. He works together with the Portfolio Management team and is responsible for the execution of bonds with a focus on emerging market debt. Mr. Loh joined the Global Fixed Income team at SSGA Singapore in July 2021. He brings over seven years of experience trading fixed income for private banking individuals, where he had an unconstrained global mandate and traded products ranging from multi-currency government bonds to investment grade and high yield corporate debt. Mr. Loh holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore and is a CFA Charterholder. He is fluent in English and Mandarin.

Imran Khan is a Vice President and a Senior Portfolio Manager in the Fixed Income Beta Solutions Team at SSGA Singapore. He manages both hard currency and local currency Asian bond funds. He joined SSGA Singapore in 2021. Prior to his role at SSGA Singapore, Mr Khan spent eleven years at UOB Asset Management in Singapore as head of the Emerging Markets Fixed Income Team. He started his career as a Portfolio Manager at Bank Negara Malaysia where he managed fixed income portfolios of foreign exchange reserves. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Postgraduate Diploma in Mathematics from the University of Southern Queensland.