Ms. Bridwell is a managing director in the Newport Beach office. As global head of PIMCO’s alternatives product development, she oversees the design, launch and marketing of new hedge fund and private equity fund offerings. She also leads the firm’s mortgage- and asset-backed securities product management team. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2005, she was a member of the portfolio strategies group at Fannie Mae and also worked in MBS/ABS sales at Visible Markets and Freddie Mac. Prior to this, she was a mortgage portfolio manager at the hedge fund Normandy Asset Management and an analyst at Smith Breeden Associates. She has 25 years of investment experience and holds undergraduate degrees in economics and Russian area studies from Southern Methodist University.