John Dugenske leads Allstate Investments and is in charge of the company’s investment portfolio, as well as the Corporate Strategy function. Dugenske joined Allstate in 2017 as Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer. His role later expanded to Chief Corporate Strategy Officer.
Before joining Allstate, Dugenske was Group Managing Director and Global Head of Fixed Income at UBS Asset Management. In this role, he oversaw more than $200 billion in assets across Chicago, New York, London, Zurich, Tokyo, Singapore and Frankfurt, managed a global team of roughly 175 people and served on the UBS Asset Management Executive Committee. Before UBS, Dugenske was head of European and Middle East Fixed Income at Neuberger Berman (formerly Lehman Brothers Asset Management), based in London. He started his career as a portfolio manager at NISA Investment Advisors. He also specializes in building and implementing multi-asset capital allocation and portfolio optimization frameworks.
Dugenske is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the CFA Institute. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering, as well as an MBA, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
", "disabled": false }, { "name": "Michael Barzyk", "title": "Managing Director, Private Equity", "image": "Barzyk-Michael", "bio": "Mike manages Allstate's portfolio of corporate and infrastructure private equity investments including funds, co-investments, and other direct investments. He is responsible for overall portfolio management and strategy as well as leadership of Chicago and London-based investment teams. Mike and his team originate, execute, and manage investment opportunities consistent with Allstate’s risk profile and long-term investment horizon.
He joined Allstate in 2015 with significant prior experience as a direct private equity investor and has played an important role in building-out Allstate’s direct investing capabilities. Mike began his career in investment banking as an analyst for Salomon Smith Barney, and subsequently worked at CIVC Partners and Pritzker Group Private Capital. He serves on numerous fund advisory boards and as a director of many private companies.
Mike earned his MBA from the University of Chicago and his bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
", "disabled": false }, { "name": "Philip Brides", "title": "Senior Managing Director, Equity Portfolio Strategy", "image": "Brides-Philip", "bio": "Philip leads the Allstate Investments team responsible for the day-to-day management of the portfolios and external manager research. The group also works with the Risk and Return team and others across Allstate Investments on asset allocation investment decisions.
Prior to joining us in 2020, Philip was a managing director at UBS Asset Management. His role there was as head of portfolio management for the Investment Solutions team. He headed up a global team of multi-asset portfolio managers and was responsible for over $130 billion in assets under management. Before UBS, Philip was a senior multi-asset portfolio manager at Blackrock, where he was responsible for global tactical asset allocation mandates.
Philip earned a MSc in financial engineering from Birkbeck, University of London, and his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Trinity College, Dublin. He is a CFA and CAIA charterholder.
", "disabled": false }, { "name": "Natalie Burkart", "title": "Managing Director, Global Research & Chief Risk Officer", "image": "Burkart-Natalie", "bio": "Natalie works closely with Allstate Investments’ leaders and portfolio managers on strategic investment decisions, process improvements, resource allocation and other aspects of our Investments business. She also leads the Public Asset group’s research analysts.
Natalie joined Allstate in 2006 as a senior analyst in investment grade research and has taken on roles of increasing responsibility. Prior to her current role, she was Allstate Investments’ group head of investment grade and municipal research.
Before joining Allstate, Natalie spent over five years at PPM America working in the Credit Analysis group. Natalie started her career in 1997 at LaSalle Bank in the credit analyst training program.
Natalie earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance, from the University of Arizona and her MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
", "disabled": false }, { "name": "Bob Smith", "title": "Managing Director, Public Markets Fixed Income and Credit Strategy", "image": "Smith-Bob", "bio": "", "disabled": true }, { "name": "Sumeena Jairaj", "title": "Divisional Chief Information Officer, Investments TechnologySumeena is responsible for leading a global technology team that provides technology and application solutions across business areas within Allstate Investments. Her team maintains high availability of systems, applications and infrastructure, as well as delivers technology solutions to business problems.
She joined Allstate in 2004 and has since led several application teams within Investments Technology. Among her many accomplishments include leading the migration of all Investments applications to our data center, establishing the Vendor Management Office team and leading IT transformation efforts to support the business strategy.
Before migrating to the U.S., she worked for a leading consulting firm, Wipro Technologies Ltd., where she worked on several projects in India, the Far East and the U.S.
Sumeena has a graduate degree in Mathematics from Madras University and a master’s degree in Computer Applications from PSG college of Technology in India.
", "disabled": false }, { "name": "Peter Keehn", "title": "Senior Managing Director, Private and Alternative Assets", "image": "Keehn-Peter", "bio": "Peter is responsible for leading Allstate Investments’ performance-based investment group, which makes fund and direct investments in private equity, real estate, infrastructure, opportunistic and agriculture/timber and has two private lending businesses: commercial mortgages and private credit.
Previously a direct private equity investor, Peter joined Allstate in 2003 with a mandate to develop and expand our alternative assets business. From 2007 to 2010, he established and managed Allstate’s U.K.-based investment affiliate and later became Allstate Investments’ managing director of private equity. In that role, he was responsible for private equity portfolio strategy and leadership of our Chicago-, London- and Hong Kong-based private equity and infrastructure teams.
Peter began his career in institutional real estate investment at LaSalle Partners (now JLL) and subsequently worked in private corporate investment at Northwestern Mutual Life. He has served on many fund advisory boards and been a director of numerous private companies and nonprofit organizations.
Peter has an MBA from Northwestern University, an AB from Brown University and is a chartered financial analyst.
", "disabled": false }, { "name": "Mike Moran", "title": "Managing Director, Real Estate", "image": "Moran-Mike", "bio": "Mike manages Allstate's commercial real estate investment portfolio. He oversees all aspects of real estate debt and equity private asset acquisitions and portfolio management for the company's commercial mortgage loan origination program and expanding equity real estate portfolios. Previously, Mike managed the firm’s portfolio of commercial mortgage-backed securities, non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities and real estate investment trust debt, strategic planning, risk management and new product development for Allstate's portfolio of commercial mortgages, real estate debt securities and commercial real estate equity investments.
Mike joined Allstate in 1996 as an analyst trading commercial mortgage-backed securities on the real estate team. Mike holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and real estate from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He serves as a member of the board of trustees of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council and sits on the board's Strategic Oversight Committee.
", "disabled": false }, { "name": "Hiren Parikh", "title": "Chief Investments Risk, Quant, Analytics & IT Officer", "image": "Parikh-Hiren", "bio": "Hiren leads the Allstate Investments team responsible for Risk and Return Management of the portfolios, including risk oversight, portfolio construction and strategic asset allocation, external manager research and producing macroeconomic and quantitative research that informs investment decisions. He is also a member of Allstate’s Enterprise Risk and Return Council.
Hiren joined Allstate Investments in 2004 as a quantitative analyst on the Derivatives team, supporting annuity hedging programs. He subsequently moved into leadership roles in Risk Management, Portfolio Analytics and Quantitative Research. Following a two-year departure to lead risk management at a hedge-fund-managed account platform, he returned to Allstate Investments in 2014 as the research head of the quantitative strategy team in Risk and Return.
Hiren earned his MBA from Northwestern University and his master’s degree in computer science from the University of Michigan. He is also a CFA charterholder.
", "disabled": false }, { "name": "Alexandra Band", "title": "Senior Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerElliot is senior vice president and assistant secretary and deputy general counsel of Allstate Insurance Company. He leads a team of attorneys and paraprofessionals who provide legal advice and support on Allstate’s investments and business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, securities issuances and business contracts. His team handles the legal, insurance regulatory and investment advisory work required for Allstate’s investments in private placements, private equity funds, mortgage loans, real estate, real estate funds, alternative assets such as timber investments, structured securities, distressed investments and derivatives. Elliot serves as an executive sponsor of Allstate’s employee network group for LGBT employees and their supporters.
Prior to joining Allstate, Elliot managed a team of investment professionals at TIAA-CREF in New York City and Charlotte, North Carolina. From 1988 through 1993, he was an associate at Shearman in Sterling in New York City. Elliot earned a J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School, an MBA from the University of North Carolina and a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College. He participates actively in the Association of Life Insurance Counsel, the American Council of Life Insurers, the American College of Investment Counsel and the Association of Corporate Counsel.
", "disabled": false }, { "name": "Janelle Woodward", "title": "Senior Managing Director, Multi-Asset", "image": "Woodward-Janelle", "bio": "Janelle Woodward is a Senior Managing Director within Allstate Investments and heads the Multi-Asset group. In her role, Janelle is responsible for leading the capital allocation process and interfacing with business unit partners, architecting and executing active investing strategies across asset classes. Prior to joining Allstate in 2023, she served as President and Head of Investment Management at MacKay Shields, where she led the firm’s seven independent investment teams representing $160 billion in assets under management and drove the expansion of their product suite and capabilities. Prior to joining MacKay, she spent more than a decade at BMO Financial Group in roles of increasing responsibility, ultimately serving as the Global Head of Fixed Income, where she led five global fixed income teams representing $50 billion in assets.
Janelle maintains a strong commitment to building diversity, equity and inclusion in the financial services industry through various sponsorships. She also currently serves on the board of Big City Mountaineers, a non-profit organization providing transformative experiences in nature for youth from disinvested communities.
Janelle earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration/systems from Taylor University and her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management. She is a CFA Charterholder.
", "disabled": false }, { "name": "Phil Van Winkle", "title": "Group Head, Opportunistic Investments", "image": "Van-Winkle-Phil", "bio": "Phil oversees Allstate’s Opportunistic Investment portfolio strategy, which focuses on deploying flexible and nimble capital across asset classes and capital structures. Prior to joining Allstate in 2016, Phil was Managing Director at AEG Partners where he provided restructuring advisory and turnaround management services. Prior to that, he managed special situation/alternative investing portfolios at Bank of America, Ernst & Young and Macquarie Bank.
Phil holds both an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from the University of Michigan. He is a member of the Turnaround Management Association and has served on numerous corporate boards and operating committees.
", "disabled": false }, { "name": "Tarik Galijasevic", "title": "Vice President, Allstate Strategic Ventures", "image": "Galijasevic-Tarik", "bio": "", "disabled": false } ] }