Speakers
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Patricia Ribeiro Senior Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager Patricia Ribeiro is a senior vice president and senior portfolio manager for American Century Investments, a premier investment manager headquartered in Kansas City, Mo. Ms. Ribeiro is based in the company’s New York office.
Ms. Ribeiro, who joined the company in 2006 and has more than 20 years of financial services experience, is a member of the investment team responsible for management of the American Century Emerging Markets portfolio. She also provides analytical coverage for Latin America.
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Raheel Altaf Raheel has managed Artemis‘ ‘global emerging markets‘ strategy with Peter Saacke since its launch in April 2015. A Cambridge graduate in electrical engineering, he joined Fidelity International in 2002 as a quantitative analyst. In 2007 he was promoted to portfolio manager for a range of funds which grew to $2.5 billion. He moved to Fulcrum Asset Management in 2011. In 2014 Raheel joined Artemis to help Philip Wolstencroft and Peter manage the SmartGARP® funds and institutional mandates.
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Katrina Uzun Institutional Portfolio Manager Katrina Uzun is an institutional fixed income portfolio manager at MFS Investment Management®(MFS®). In this capacity, she participates in portfolio strategy discussions and communicates portfolio investment strategy and positioning to prospects, clients and consultants.
Prior to joining MFS in 2018, Katrina served for 11 years as an investment director at Wellington Management, where she was responsible for emerging market debt. Before that, she worked as a trader and portfolio manager at South Trust Bank for four years, handling municipal debt and US Treasury markets.
Katrina earned a Bachelor of Science degree in finance magna cum laude from University of Alabama in Birmingham and a master of business administration degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan).
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Mark Thurgood Principal & Emerging Markets Corporate Portfolio Manager Mark Thurgood, ACA, is a Principal, Emerging Markets Corporate Portfolio Manager at PGIM Fixed Income, based in London. Previously Mr. Thurgood was a Credit Analyst focused on Asian corporate bonds for PGIM Fixed Income's Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Research Team, based in Singapore. Prior to joining PGIM Fixed Income, Mr. Thurgood was Head of Research at Saka Capital. Previously, Mark held positions as a Credit Analyst at RBS and began his career with KPMG as an insolvency and restructuring professional. He received an M.A. in Economics from the University of Cambridge. He is a member of the ICAEW accountancy body and R3, the UK Association of Business Recovery Professionals.
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Kunal Patel Vice President, Consultant Relations, UK Client Advisory Kunal Patel, CFA, is Vice President, Consultant Relations and UK Client Advisory for PGIM Fixed Income, based in London. Mr. Patel is responsible for developing and marketing PGIM Fixed Income’s capabilities to investment consultants, pension funds, and other institutions in the UK and Ireland. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Patel was a Vice President in the UK coverage team for PIMCO, managing relationships for institutional investors and consultants. Earlier, Mr. Patel was with Deutsche Bank in the Debt Capital Markets team where he advised corporate clients on debt financing issues. Mr. Patel received a MA (Oxon) / BA in Economics and Management from Worcester College, The University of Oxford, and a MBA with a concentration in Finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
