Jeffrey E. Gundlach, CEO and CIO, Co-founder
Philip A. Barach, President, Co-founder
Joel A. Damiani, CFA, Principal
Joseph J. Galligan, CFA, Principal
Louis C. Lucido, Principal, Chief Operating Officer
Ronald R. Redell, CFA, President, DoubleLine Funds Trust
Cris Santa Ana III, Chief Risk Officer
Joseph Sullivan, CPA, Chief Financial Officer
Gregory A. Uythoven, CFA, Director, Marketing
Earl Lariscy, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer
Mr. Gundlach is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of DoubleLine. He was formerly associated with TCW where he was Chief Investment Officer and head of fixed income activities. He is recognized as a leading expert in mortgage-backed securities and investment asset allocation. His investment strategies have been featured in leading publications including The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Barron’s, Forbes, Fortune, Pensions & Investments and Institutional Investor. In 2010, Mr. Gundlach was named to the SmartMoney Power 30 , one of the seventeen most influential people by The Mutual Fund Wire and “Fund Leader of the Year” by Fund Action. In 2011, he was featured as “The King of Bonds” in Barron’s, named one of “5 Mutual Fund All-Stars” by Fortune Magazine and named “Bond Manager of the Year” by Foundations and Endowments Money Management. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College summa cum laude holding a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy. He attended Yale University as a PhD candidate in Mathematics.
Mr. Barach is co‐founder and President of DoubleLine. Prior to DoubleLine, Mr. Barach was Co‐Founder and Group Managing Director of the TCW Mortgage Group where he spent over 23 years. He has over 32 years of fixed income investment experience. Before joining TCW, Mr. Barach was Senior Vice President of Chief Investments for Sun Life Insurance Company in Los Angeles, where he was responsible for the asset/liability management of the firm and oversight and management of the company’s $5 billion investment portfolio. Previously, he served as Principal Fixed Income Officer for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest pension plan in the country. In that capacity, he was responsible for managing the fixed income portion of the fund which was 100% internally managed. Mr. Barach was heavily involved in the creation of the collateralized mortgage obligations (CMO) while at CalPERS, he oversaw the issuance of one of the first private label CMO using the retirement system’s MBS portfolio. He attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he received a BA in International Relations and an MBA in Finance.
Mr. Damiani is a Principal and founding member of DoubleLine. He is also a Portfolio Manager in the Mortgage Group. Prior to joining DoubleLine in 2009, Mr. Damiani was a Managing Director and MBS Portfolio Manager at TCW since 1999. Previously, Mr. Damiani was a Senior Vice President and head of residential mortgage investments at Back Bay Advisors. Before that, he was an Assistant Vice President and Portfolio Manager for The Putnam Companies. Mr. Damiani holds both a BS in Molecular Biology and an MS in Finance from the University of Wisconsin. He is a CFA charterholder.
Mr. Galligan is a Principal and founding member of DoubleLine. He is also a Portfolio Manager in the Mortgage Group. Prior to joining DoubleLine in 2009, Mr. Galligan was a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at TCW since 1991. Prior to TCW, he was a Vice President at Smith Barney in the Mortgage-Backed Specialist group. Prior to that, he spent five years at First Boston as Vice President in the same area. In addition, Mr. Galligan spent over three years at Scudder Stevens & Clark as a Portfolio Manager/Trader. Mr. Galligan holds a BS in Economics with a concentration in Finance from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a CFA charterholder.
Mr. Lucido is a Principal, a founding member of DoubleLine, and a member of the firm’s Executive Management Committee. He was previously at TCW as a Group Managing Director and Portfolio Manager within the MBS Group responsible for the oversight of ABS/CMBS assets and was additionally responsible for the management of Credit Research, Structured Products activities as well as Credit Fund Product Development. Prior to joining TCW in 2001, Mr. Lucido was the Chief Investment Officer for Delphi Financial Group (DFG) responsible for the asset/liability management of the firm and the oversight and management of the firm's $2.3 billion investment portfolio. Before DFG, he was the Chief Operating Officer, Managing Director & Corporate Secretary for Hyperion Capital Management, an MBS, CMBS & ABS investment management company. He was responsible for managing the daily operation of the firm, which had $5.5 billion of assets under management. While at Hyperion, he was also a member of the Resolution Trust Advisory Committee, responsible for the conservatorship and ultimate liquidation of the Franklin Savings Association. Mr. Lucido is a former Chairman of ASF CDO Collateral Managers Subforum, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Securitization Forum. Currently he is a member of the ASF Advisory Board. He is also a member of FitchRatings Investor Advisory Council since 2007. Mr. Lucido received his MBA in Management and Finance from New York University, and is now a member of the Dean's Executive Board of the Stern School of Business.
Mr. Redell is President of DoubleLine Funds Trust and a member of the Executive Management Committee. He oversees the development of DoubleLine’s mutual fund business and distribution lines. Prior to DoubleLine, he served as President and CEO of TCW Funds, Inc. and TCW Strategic Income Fund, Inc. He was also Director of the Products and Services Group where he oversaw TCW's client service initiatives. Prior to assuming these responsibilities, Mr. Redell was Managing Director and head of the TCW Funds Group. In this capacity, he was responsible for overall marketing and strategy of the TCW Funds through the firm’s various client segments. Previously, Mr. Redell was Vice President of Marketing for RS Investment Management, formerly Robertson Stephens,where he was in charge of the firm's retail Mutual Fund sales and marketing effort through intermediaries. Previously, he was a Financial Consultant with Wells Fargo Securities. Mr. Redell holds a BA in Political Science from Stanford University. He is a member of the CFA Society of Los Angeles and is a CFA charterholder.
Mr. Santa Ana joined DoubleLine as the Chief Operating Officer in 2009 which entails overseeing investment analytics, trading operations, portfolio risk management and systems development. He is also a member of the Executive Management Committee. Prior to DoubleLine, Mr. Santa Ana was most recently a Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of TCW’s Mortgage-Backed Securities Group. During his 15-year tenure at TCW, Mr. Santa Ana held various management positions starting in Domestic Fixed Income Operations overseeing portfolio accounting, reporting, compliance, and trading support for the Mortgage-Backed Securities and High Yield portfolio groups. Mr. Santa Ana received his BA in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Mr. Sullivan is Chief Financial Officer of DoubleLine and DoubleLine Funds Trust, and a member of the Executive Management Committee. Prior to joining DoubleLine in January 2010, Mr. Sullivan was a Principal and the Chief Operating Officer of Piping Ridge Capital during 2009. Mr. Sullivan served from 1999 to 2008 at Peconic Partners, a hedge fund manager, and its predecessor firm, Fortsmann-Leff Associates. Mr. Sullivan’s last position at the firm was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer. In that capacity, he was responsible for accounting, administration, operational risk management, compliance and regulatory functions. For over two years, Mr. Sullivan served at Hyperion Capital Management as Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of Hyperion’s closed-end bond funds. Previously, Mr. Sullivan worked for five years in Merrill Lynch’s Investment Banking Division where he served as Treasurer and CFO of several leveraged buyout and venture capital funds. Mr. Sullivan also has been employed at Standard & Poor’s, Shearson Lehman Hutton and Wiss & Company, a public accounting firm. He is a member of the Economic Club of New York, National Society of Compliance Professionals, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. An authority on the functions and standards for chief compliance officers in the investment advisory industry, Mr. Sullivan was a panelist at the Security and Exchange Commission’s 2006 CCOutreach Conference, held to promote open communications and coordination among regulators and the industry on mutual fund, investment adviser and broker-dealer compliance issues. He graduated Magna cum Laude with a BS in Accounting from the University of Albany and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant.
Mr. Uythoven joined DoubleLine in 2009 and is a member of the Executive Management Committee. He is a Fixed Income Generalist and member of the Fixed Income Asset Allocation Committee. Prior to DoubleLine, he was a Senior Vice President at TCW since 1989 where he held various positions over the years. He joined the Mortgage Group in 1993. In 1997, he assumed full responsibility of portfolio analytics for TCW’s Multi-Strategy Fixed Income product. In 1999, he was appointed to TCW's Multi-Strategy Fixed Income Committee as part of the asset allocation team. Mr. Uythoven was also the fixed income product manager where he worked on product development. Mr.Uythoven holds a BA in Quantitative Economics from the University of California at San Diego and an MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles. He is a CFA charterholder.
Mr. Lariscy joined DoubleLine in 2010 and is a member of the Executive Management Committee. He was most recently a Director at Barclays Capital and Agency General Manager of Barclay Bank PLC’s California based banking operations. Prior to Barclays, Mr. Lariscy served as Associate General Counsel to TCW and worked as an attorney in the New York office of Linklaters. He has over 13 years of experience in a diverse range of practice areas including general corporate law, commercial litigation, securities law and structured finance. Mr. Lariscy has a JD from Tulane School of Law. He also holds a BS in Finance from the University of South Florida and a Master’s in International Business from the University of South Carolina.