Mr. Dorsten is an executive vice president in the Newport Beach office and a portfolio manager in the quantitative strategies group. He is the lead portfolio manager for managed futures in addition to having portfolio management responsibilities in multi-asset alternative risk premia and beta replication strategies. He was previously a member of the financial engineering group working on mortgage-backed securities and event-linked bonds. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2006, he received his Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics from the California Institute of Technology, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. He has 17 years of investment experience and holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics from Ohio State University.