Rena Patel

Director, is a member of Index Fixed Income (IFI) Portfolio Management in the Americas at BlackRock. Ms. Patel focuses on management, oversight and trading for municipal ETF strategies.

Prior to joining Blackrock, Ms. Patel was a Director at Sterling Capital Management and was responsible for municipal bond portfolio management, trading and credit analysis. Previously, she was a Senior Vice President at Payden & Rygel where she led the management, research and trading for the firm's municipal strategies across mutual funds, institutional and SMA client portfolios.

Ms. Patel earned a BS degree in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.