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Sam Vecht, CFA, Managing Director, is Head of Emerging Europe, Frontiers and Alternative Strategies and a portfolio manager within BlackRock’s Fundamental Equity Group. Mr. Vecht is lead portfolio manager for the Emerging Markets Equity Strategies Fund and also co-manages the Latin America, Emerging Europe, Emerging Frontiers Hedge Fund, Frontiers, and Asia Pacific Absolute Return strategies. He is also a research pod leader of the EMEA & Frontiers and Latin America pods.
Mr. Vecht's service with the firm dates back to 2000, including his years with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), which merged with BlackRock in 2006.
Mr. Vecht earned a BSc degree, with honours, in international relations and history from the London School of Economics |
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Chris Colunga, Director, is a Portfolio Manager and a research analyst on the Global Emerging Markets Equities Team within BlackRock’s Fundamental Equity Group. He specialized in Central Eastern European and Russian Equities. He is a member of the EMEA & Frontiers research pod.
Prior to moving to BlackRock, Mr. Colunga spent five years managing long/short equity strategies focused on the EMEA and MENA regions at Charlemagne Capital and Och-Ziff Capital Management. From 2007, Mr. Colunga was an EMEA equity analyst at Schroders specialising in Russia, Turkey and the Czech Republic. He began his career as an auditor at Ernst & Young in 2004.
Mr. Colunga earned a BA (Hons) in Political Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. |