Mr. Thompson is a Managing Director and Co-Chief Executive Officer of PIMCO and serves as Chairman of PIMCO’s Executive Committee. Additionally, he is a member of both the Management Board and the Executive Committee of Allianz Global Investors (AGI), PIMCO's parent company. Mr. Thompson joined PIMCO in 1993, having previously spent eighteen years with Salomon Brothers, including two years in Tokyo as Chairman of Salomon Brothers Asia Ltd. He has thirty-five years of investment experience and holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.