David Rogal, Managing Director, is portfolio manager in BlackRock’s Fundamental Fixed Income Group and a member of the FFI Executive Committee. Mr. Rogal is the lead portfolio manager for BlackRock’s Total Return, Core Bond, and Inflation Protected mutual fund portfolios, overseeing roughly $60bn in total client assets. He is also a co-portfolio manager on BlackRock’s Strategic Income Opportunities Fund. Mr. Rogal focuses on broad macro positioning, with specialties in global interest rates, inflation, and volatility trading. Mr. Rogal joined Fixed Income in 2009. Previously, he was a member of BlackRock’s Multi Asset Strategies group, where he developed quantitative models and advised insurance companies, pension funds, and banks on asset allocation and asset liability management. Mr. Rogal began his career at BlackRock in 2006 as an analyst in the Financial Institutions group. Mr. Rogal earned a BA degree with majors in Economics and Biology from Cornell University in 2006.