Emmanuel "Manny" Roman (born August 1963) is a French financial executive. He is the

chief executive officer A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

(CEO) of

PIMCO PIMCO (Pacific Investment Management Company, LLC) is an American investment management firm focusing on active fixed income management worldwide. PIMCO manages investments in many asset classes such as fixed income, equities, commodities, asset ...

, a leading global investment management firm, based in

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, California. In 2011, he was named by the

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as one of London's 1000 most influential people.

Early life and education

Roman grew up in Paris, the only child of the artists Philippe Roman and Véronique Jordan Roman. He earned a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from the University of Paris IX Dauphine in 1985. He later received an

MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...

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from the

University of Chicago Booth School of Business The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Chicago Booth or Booth) is the graduate business school of the University of Chicago. Founded in 1898, Chicago Booth is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and is associated with 10 N ...

Career

Roman has over 30 years of experience in the investment industry. He joined

Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, H ...

, a global investment banking, securities and investment management firm, in 1987 where he spent the first 18 years of his career. From 1996 to 2000 he served as co-head of Worldwide Equity Derivatives and was promoted to co-head of Worldwide Global Securities Services in 2000. In 2005, Roman joined

GLG Partners ''Man GLG'' (formerly GLG Partners) is a discretionary investment manager and a wholly owned subsidiary of British alternative investment manager Man Group plc. It is a diversified and multi-strategy fund manager that operates strategies includ ...

, a discretionary investment manager, as co-CEO and later played a key role in its listing in 2007. In 2010, Roman instigated the sale of GLG to

Man Group Man Group plc is an active investment management business listed on the London Stock Exchange. It provides a range of funds across liquid and private markets for institutional and private investors globally and is the world's largest publicly t ...

, one of the world's largest publicly traded alternative asset managers, and was named as president and chief operating officer. Roman was added to Man Group's executive board in 2011 and named as successor to CEO Peter Clark the following year. While at Man Group, Roman engineered a number of successful acquisitions including Connecticut-based Silvermine Capital, Boston-based quantitative equity manager Numeric Holdings and US fund of hedge funds Pine Grove. In October 2016, Roman was named CEO of

, a global investment management firm headquartered in Newport Beach, California, replacing Douglas M. Hodge, who was CEO from 2014 to 2016. As CEO, he serves on PIMCO's Executive Committee and has executive oversight of the firm's client and business areas, including broad strategy-setting and resource management. PIMCO has over 2,800 employees working in 17 offices across the globe and $1.88 trillion in assets under management, as of 30 September 2019*. The company provides mutual funds, and other portfolio management and asset allocation products. Roman was awarded the Chicago Booth Distinguished Alumni Award in 2019 in recognition of outstanding professional achievement.

Personal life

Roman has three daughters and a son. In addition to collecting art and wine, Roman supports British football club,

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. He is President of The PIMCO Foundation and currently sits on the board of trustees for the Tate Foundation, and the

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and the Board of Directors for

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. He previously sat on the Board of Directors for Societe Generale and publisher Penguin Random House and served as a trustee of the

Hedge Fund Standards Board The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI), formerly known as the Hedge Fund Standards Board, is an international standard-setting body for the alternative investment industry and sets the voluntary standard of best practices and pra ...

as well as the

Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS Foundation Trust which operates the Royal Marsden Hospital facilities on two sites: *The Chelsea, London, Chelsea site in Brompton, Kensington, Brompton, next to the Royal Brompton Hospital, in ...

References

External links

Times article
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