Cliff is the director of institutional services.  His responsibilities involve developing and servicing relationships with institutional investment consultants and advisors.  Before joining Brandes, Cliff was a managing director at Weiss, Peck & Greer, where he was a senior relationship manager and Fixed Income product specialist.  Previously, he was a portfolio manager at ORIX USA.  Prior to that Cliff worked in corporate finance at Citibank and Swiss Bank, specializing in private placements of debt and other high yield securities with institutional investors.  He earned his AB in economics from Stanford University and his MBA from Harvard Business School.  Cliff has 30 years of investment experience.