Ms. Callin is an Executive Vice President and the head of the StocksPLUS product management team responsible for PIMCO's global portable alpha-based equity business. Prior to joining PIMCO in 1998, she was a manager in the assurance and business advisory services group at KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP. She has sixteen years of investment experience and holds two bachelor’s degrees with majors in finance, accounting and economics from Texas Christian University, and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. She is also the lead author of Portable Alpha, Theory and Practice: What Investors Really Need to Know, which was published by Wiley in April 2008.