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Mr. Balls is CIO Global, a managing director in the London office and a member of the Investment Committee. He is head of European portfolio management, leading PIMCO's European investment team (which is based in London and Munich), and he also oversees PIMCO's investment teams in the Asia Pacific region. He manages a range of global and European portfolios, including PIMCO's Global Advantage strategy, combining developed and emerging fixed income markets. Mr. Balls was previously a portfolio manager in Newport Beach and the firm's global strategist. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2006, he spent eight years at the Financial Times as an economics correspondent and columnist in London, New York and Washington, DC. He has 16 years of investment experience and holds a bachelor's degree from Oxford and a master's degree from Harvard University. He was a lecturer in economics at Keble College, Oxford.

Mr. Pothalingam is a senior vice president in the London office and a portfolio manager focusing on U.K. credit investing in the European portfolio management group. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2009, he was a credit fund manager with Threadneedle Investments in London. Before that, he was with Lehman Brothers in London as executive director, responsible for sterling credit trading. He previously spent 11 years with HSBC Holdings in London and Tokyo. He has 26 years of investment and financial services experience and holds an undergraduate degree from University College London and a diploma (niveau moyen) from L'Institut D'Etudes Francaises de Tours. He holds the Investment Management Certificate and is a member of the UK Society of Investment Professionals.

Mr. Gupta is an executive vice president and portfolio manager in the London office and manages European LDI portfolios. He also focuses on investments in European government bond markets, credit derivatives on sovereigns and interest rate derivatives in G-7 markets. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2003, he was in the fixed income and currency derivatives group at ABN AMRO Bank. He has 15 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from XLRI, India. He received an undergraduate degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.