BlackRock European High Yield Bond Class D4 - Income (GBP Hedged)

James Turner ACA, is Head of European Leveraged Finance, overseeing investment strategies across European High Yield, Long/Short Credit, CLOs, Leveraged Loans and the European Fundamental Credit Research team. Prior to BlackRock, James spent more than 16 years at Oaktree, where he was the portfolio manager for their European high yield bond strategy and a co-portfolio manager for the global high yield bond fund, European senior loan strategies and European CLO strategy. Mr. Turner earned a B.Eng degree in chemical engineering from University of Nottingham.

Stephen Gough, Director, is a portfolio manager of the European Fundamental Credit business in International Fixed Income. Prior to joining Blackrock in 2014,Mr Gough worked at Goldentree Asset Management as a portfloio manager where he was responsible for cyclical sector investments. Mr Gough previously worked at Claren Road Asset Management where he worked in London and New York, as an European credit analyst. Beforejoining Claren Road Asset Management, Mr Gough was a junior portfolio manager and sell side analyst in European High Yield. Mr Gough is a chartered accountant and has a BA from Oxford University.

Jose Aguilar, Managing Director, is the head of European High Yield Strategies within BlackRock's Global Credit Platform. He is a portfolio manager for the European High Yield, Global High Yield, Global Long Short Credit Fund and Credit Strategies Income Fund. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Aguilar was a senior research analyst at R3 Capital Partners focusing on Leverage Finance and Special Situations. He began his career at Lehman Brothers in 2005 in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group covering Financial Institutions and subsequently moved to Global Principal Strategies (GPS). Mr. Aguilar earned degrees in Business Administration and Law from Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, Spain in 2005.