Mr. Riendeau is an executive vice president and PIMCO's head of corporate development, responsible for identifying, evaluating and helping optimize the firm's strategic growth opportunities. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2018, he was a member of the strategy team at Apollo Global Management, assessing growth opportunities spanning alternative asset management and specialty finance. Previously, he spent over 10 years in investment banking focused on the financial services sector, most recently as an executive director in the financial institutions group at UBS. He has 18 years of investment and financial services experience and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School. He received an undergraduate degree from Cornell University.