Ruta Ziverte
Head of fixed income for William Blair Investment Management, and
portfolio manager for the Core Fixed Income and Intermediate Fixed Income
strategies. In this role, Ruta is responsible for developing and executing our
fixed-income growth strategy (in conjunction with other members of the team),
team leadership, and select portfolio management. Before joining William Blair,
Ruta worked at Oppenheimer Funds, where she was the portfolio manager for the
Global High Yield Fund and co-portfolio manager for the Global Strategic Income
Fund. She also led a team of fixed-income credit analysts. Before joining
Oppenheimer Funds in 2015, Ruta worked at GE Asset Management, where she most recently
served as executive managing director and high-yield portfolio manager.
Previously at GE, Ruta was a team leader and senior analyst, co-managing a
leveraged finance research team, and was responsible for developing and
implementing the firm's credit processes and procedures. Earlier in her career,
Ruta was a credit analyst with Citigroup/Travelers Life and Annuity. She also
worked at Phoenix Investment Partners.
Education: B.S. in business administration from the
University of Latvia; M.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Tenure with William Blair: Since 2019
Paul J Sularz
Portfolio manager for William Blair's Core Fixed Income,
Intermediate Fixed Income, and Low Duration Fixed Income strategies. Before
joining the firm in 2006, Paul was a vice president at J.P. Morgan Securities
from 2004 to 2006, where he was responsible for trading specified pool agency
mortgage-backed pass-through securities for the firm›s primary broker-dealer
located in New York City. Before that, he was a director in the asset-backed
and mortgage-backed securities group at Banc One Capital Markets from 1995 to 2004,
where he managed the firm›s mortgage-backed securities trading desk in Chicago.
Paul began his career in 1990 as an assistant portfolio manager in the
fixed-income institutional asset management division of Kemper Asset Management
Company. He is a member of the CFA Institute and CFA Society of Chicago.
Education: B.A. in Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.B.A., University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business.
Tenure with William Blair: Since 2006