Ecaterina Bigos, Vice President, is a member of the Product Strategy team within BlackRock's Fixed Income Portfolio Management Group. She joined in 2012 as a fixed income strategist focusing on iShares. Before joining BlackRock, Ecaterina worked at UBS and Credit Suisse as a product specialist in global synthetic equity. Prior to that she was at Dresdner Kleinwort where she started in corporate solutions group covering EMEA, then moving on to cross asset financing group focusing on hedge funds. She holds a Master in Finance from Cass Business School and a Bachelor degree from Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest.