Mr. Greer is an executive vice president and real return product manager in the Newport Beach office. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2002, he was with JPMorgan Chase and Daiwa Securities as a developer and product manager of commodity indexes. Mr. Greer has investment experience with real return products, including commodities, real estate, and inflation-linked bonds. He has written about these subjects in several investment journals and publications, and published The Handbook of Inflation Hedging Investments in 2005. He has 25 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and an undergraduate degree from Southern Methodist University.