BlackRock Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Class D3 - Income (Hedged GBP)

Jack Deino, CFA, Director, is Head of the Emerging Markets Corporate Debt Team and a lead portfolio manager within BlackRock's Global Fixed Income Group. He is responsible for overseeing the team's fundamental credit research process and implementation, which includes all aspects of ESG research, as it pertains to EM corporate credit. In addition, Mr. Deino is a member of BlackRock's Latam Infrastructure Debt Investment Committee. Prior to joining BlackRock in December 2015, Mr. Deino spent more than 9 years at Invesco where he was most recently Head of Emerging Market Portfolio Management and lead portfolio manager for the firm's award winning corporate and sovereign credit funds. In addition, he has been involved in the restructuring of diverse credits on a global basis and has played a key role in the implementation of the Emerging Markets corporate and quasi-sovereign fundamental research processes at his previous firms. Prior to Invesco, Mr. Deino held positions at Daiwa Securities America, Zephyr Management, Orix Capital Markets and APS Financial Corp. He has 24 years of combined industry experience in EM fixed income and equities. Mr. Deino earned a BA degree in Latin American Studies from The University of Texas at Austin. He is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish and conversant in French.

Jane Yu, CFA, Director, is a portfolio manager for the Emerging Markets Debt team within BlackRock's Portfolio Management Group. She has responsibility for EM corporate strategies. Prior to joining BlackRock in June 2012, Jane was a portfolio manager/credit analyst for the Emerging Markets Debt team at Fischer Francis Trees and Watts - FFTW (wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas) for three years where she was responsible for generating alpha ideas related to emerging markets credit. Prior to the merger between BNP Paribas and Fortis, Jane was an emerging markets debt credit analyst for Fortis Investments for three years, with responsibility for corporate bond analysis. She began her career as a research associate in Nottingham University Business School in 2005. Jane earned a PhD in Economics and an MSc in International Money and Banking from University of Birmingham in the UK. Jane is a CFA charterholder.

Sergio Trigo Paz, Managing Director, is Head of BlackRock's Emerging Markets Fixed Income. Prior to Joining BlackRock in 2012, he was CIO of Emerging Market Fixed Income at BNP Paribas Investment Partners. From 2004 to 2008, he managed a special situations and event driven EM hedge fund and was also responsible for total and absolute return EM strategies at Fortis Investments. In his early career from 1993 to 2004 he developed extensive experience in emerging markets debt as a proprietary and distressed trader and as a market maker. Sergio graduated with an MSc in Economics, an MSc in Finance and an MPhil in Management from Paris Sorbonne University in 1993.