Mr. Simon is a Managing Director and a senior member of PIMCO's portfolio management and strategy groups, and head of the mortgage and ABS teams. He joined the firm in 2000 from Bear Stearns & Co. in New York, where he was a senior managing director and co-head of MBS pass-through trading. He also authored The Daily MBS Commentary. Mr. Simon has seven times been named to positions on the Institutional Investor All-America Fixed-Income Research Team, including first place honors in MBS pass-throughs and overall MBS strategies. He has twenty-four years investment experience, and holds a bachelor's and master's degrees in industrial engineering from Stanford University.