Barbara McKenna is a partner and the CEO of LIM. Additionally, she oversees LIM’s investment process, co-leading longer strategies, including Core and Core Plus. Prior to joining LIM in 2005, she was a director and senior portfolio manager at State Street Research, responsible for $14 billion of institutional fixed income accounts. As director of corporate bond strategy, McKenna was responsible for the development and implementation of corporate bond strategy across all fixed income mandates. Prior to joining State Street Research, she was a director and portfolio manager at Standish, Ayer & Wood. McKenna has also held portfolio management and investment banking positions at BayBank and Massachusetts Capital Resource Company, a private capital firm. She has more than 30 years of experience and holds a Master of Science and bachelor’s in finance from Boston College. McKenna is a CFA charterholder, a member of the CFA Institute, and a member of the CFA Society Boston. She is also a board trustee of the American Beacon Funds and a member of the N.E. Financial Services CEO Roundtable and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s External Diversity Advisory Council.