Brian Timberlake is the head of fixed income research at Voya Investment Management and is responsible for managing the organization’s global fixed income research analysts as well as the coordination of macroeconomic data across the fixed income platform. Prior to this position, Mr. Timberlake was Head of Quantitative Research and before that, a Senior Quantitative Analyst. He joined Voya IM in 2003. His team is responsible for macro and quantitative fixed income research and provides additional assistance to individual sector groups and the risk management team. In addition, Brian is a named portfolio manager on several global and opportunistic fixed income products. Previously, he was the head of quantitative research where he helped develop an integrated, automated tool for interest rate hedging, created multifactor risk models, and was integral to the design and monitoring of customized client portfolios. Prior to that he was a senior quantitative analyst at Voya. Brian received a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland, an MS in quantitative and computational finance from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a PhD in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

Sean Banai is head of portfolio management for the fixed income platform at Voya Investment Management. Previously, Sean was a senior portfolio manager and before that head of quantitative research for proprietary fixed income. Prior to joining the firm in 1999, he was a partner in a private sector company. Sean received a BA and an MS in actuarial science from Georgia State University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

Eric Stein is the head of investments and chief investment officer of fixed income at Voya Investment Management. As head of investments with broad responsibility for Voya IM’s public markets platforms, Eric leads teams of investment professionals across fixed income, multi-asset strategies and solutions, income and growth and equities. As CIO of fixed income, he is also directly responsible for oversight of the portfolio management of the fixed income platform and leadership of the fixed income investment professionals. Prior to Voya, Eric was chief investment officer for fixed income at Eaton Vance and Morgan Stanley Investment Management, where he was responsible for overseeing over 275 investment professionals managing strategies with approximately $200 billion in assets under management across the fixed income spectrum for institutions and individual investors worldwide. He previously was co-head of the global macro/emerging market debt group at Eaton Vance. Eric earlier worked on the Markets Desk at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Eric earned a BS from Boston University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a CFA ® Charterholder.