Erin Browne Managing Director, PIMCO, is a portfolio manager in the Newport Beach office. Before 2018, Ms. Browne was a managing director and head of asset allocation at UBS Asset Management. Previously, she was head of macro investments at UBS O’Connor and a global macro portfolio manager at Point72 Asset Management. Ms. Browne has also held roles at Citigroup, Moore Capital Management and Neuberger Berman, and she began her career at Lehman Brothers.

Dr. Sharef is an executive vice president and portfolio manager in the Newport Beach office. He is a member of the Americas Portfolio Committee and has served as a rotating member of the Investment Committee. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2011, he worked in the mortgage credit strategists group at Morgan Stanley. He has over 11 years of investment and financial services experience and holds a Ph.D. in operations research from Cornell University, specializing in statistics and biometrics. He received an undergraduate degree from Princeton University.