Mr. Thuerbach is a senior vice president and product strategist in the Newport Beach office, focusing on liquid real assets. In addition, he has responsibility for PIMCO’s target date offerings. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2012, he was a relationship manager at Bankhaus Metzler in Germany. Previously, he worked for the commingled funds group at Wellington Management Company in Boston and London. He has 13 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Palmer Scholar. He received undergraduate degrees in international business from Northeastern University, Boston and ESB Reutlingen, Germany.