Mr. Klopukh is a senior portfolio manager, a director and CIO Mid Cap Equities with Allianz Global Investors, which he joined in 2002. He manages US mid-cap growth and core equity portfolios. He was previously a vice president and fundamental equity analyst at CDC Investment Management Corp., where he collaborated on quantitatively enhanced, risk-targeted large-cap core and market-neutral equity strategies.

Before that, Mr. Klopukh was in the investment-banking associate program at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, where he was involved in M&A, debt and equity capital-raising, and consumer-products corporate finance.

He began his career as a sell-side equity-research associate analyst at Ryan, Beck and Co., where he covered small- and mid-sized banks and thrifts.

Mr. Klopukh has a B.S., magna cum laude, from Fairleigh Dickinson University and an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago. He is a CFA charterholder.