Mr. Gupta is an executive vice president and portfolio manager in the Newport Beach office, focusing on agency mortgage-backed securities and structured products. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2018, he was a founding member and senior portfolio manager at Nara Capital. Previously, he was a managing director at Structured Portfolio Management (SPM) and held research and portfolio strategy positions at various buy-side firms. He has 18 years of investment experience and holds master's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Cincinnati and in quantitative and computational finance from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his undergraduate degree from the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology in India.