Mr. Purani is an executive vice president in the New York office and a portfolio manager focusing on accounts for financial institutions. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2010, he was a fixed income portfolio manager at PNC Capital Advisors. Mr. Purani also worked as a corporate finance analyst with National City Corporation and as a senior consultant in corporate strategy at Ernst & Young. He has 19 years of investment and financial services experience and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a bachelor's degree from Northern Illinois University.