Brandon Michael is a senior client portfolio manager at Voya Investment Management, supporting the fundamental thematic team. He joined the firm following Voya’s integration of certain assets and teams comprising the substantial majority of Allianz Global Investors U.S. (“AllianzGI”) business, where he was a senior product specialist, director and head of product specialists, U.S. equity on the systematic team. He held product-specialist and research responsibilities for emerging-market and small-cap strategies, as well as product specialist coverage for fundamentally-based health care, U.S. large cap and global equity strategies. Prior to that, Brandon worked as a vice president of hedge-fund client relations and as a consultant relations specialist at American Express Asset Management. Previously, he was a financial advisor for UBS Paine Webber. Brandon earned a BBA from the University of Minnesota Duluth and an MBA from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He is a CFA® Charterholder.