Cathy L. Hepworth, CFA, is a Managing Director and Head of PGIM Fixed Income's Emerging Markets Debt Team. Ms. Hepworth co-founded the Firm's emerging markets debt management effort in 1995. Previously, Ms. Hepworth was an analyst in the credit unit group of the Firm’s Capital Management Group, focusing on various sovereign, financial and corporate sectors. Prior to joining the Firm in 1989, she held analyst positions at Bankers Trust, Merrill Lynch, and Golembe Associates. Ms. Hepworth received a BSFS from Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Mariusz Banasiak is a Principal and Portfolio Manager for PGIM Fixed Income, responsible for developing emerging markets currency strategy. Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Banasiak was a Vice President for PGIM Fixed Income’s Emerging Markets Debt Team, responsible for developing portfolio strategies on USD sovereign and local emerging market yield curves and currencies in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Previously, Mr. Banasiak was an Analyst for emerging market debt portfolios in the Portfolio Analyst Group of PGIM Fixed Income. Earlier, he was responsible for risk analysis and performance attribution for the firm’s proprietary portfolios. Mr. Banasiak joined PGIM Fixed Income in 2004.He received a BS in Finance from Rutgers University and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Pradeep Kumar, PhD, CFA, is a Principal and Portfolio Manager for PGIM Fixed Income's Emerging Markets Debt Team. Mr. Kumar is responsible for developing EM local markets strategy. Prior to joining the Firm in 2019, Mr. Kumar was a Portfolio Manager and Co-Head of Emerging Markets at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (“OTPP”) in Toronto. At OTPP he managed local market portfolios across emerging markets, which included a GBIEM index portfolio and an Absolute Return portfolio. Prior to OTPP, Mr. Kumar spent 13 years as a Portfolio Manager in the hedge fund industry. From 2005 through 2017 he was employed at several firms including Balyasny Asset Management, Woodbine Capital Advisors and Drake Management. During his time working in the hedge fund industry, he managed a fundamentally driven, discretionally global, macro portfolio with a focus on emerging markets. Prior to his experience in investment management, Mr. Kumar was a director in the emerging markets fixed income quantitative group at Citigroup. He joined Citigroup in 1997 as a research analyst in emerging markets where he worked on currency and interest rates models and developed quantitative trading strategies. He received a PhD in Economics from University of Alabama and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (“CFA”) designation.