Mr. Sapra is an executive vice president and quantitative research analyst in the Newport Beach office, focusing on client solutions and analytics with an emphasis on defined contribution solutions. Mr. Sapra is also a member of PIMCO’s Glidepath leadership team, which is responsible for the development and implementation of PIMCOs target date glidepath. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2012, he was a managing director at TOBAM, a quantitative asset manager headquartered in Paris. From 1999-2010 Mr. Sapra served as a portfolio manager at Analytic Investors, based in Los Angeles. Mr. Sapra has written and spoken extensively on issues pertaining to investing and risk management and has published papers in several journals including the Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Portfolio Management and Journal of Retirement. He is also an adjunct professor in the department of economics at the University of Southern California, where he teaches a graduate course on financial economics. He has 24 years of investment experience and holds a Ph.D. in economics from Claremont Graduate University and a master's degree in economics from the University of Southern California.