Product Manager Marketing Specialist

Linda M. Arnette

Los Angeles, CA *****

T: 323-***-****

E: *****************@*****.***

Value Proposition

Throughout my career I have worked alongside some of the most successful and innovative CEO’s in the Asset Management industry, building world-class companies from the ground up. I have acted as a consultant, product manager, marketer and educator, successfully representing complex financial products and ideas to organizations, institutions, investment professionals and their high net worth clients. I personify integrity, client service and esprit de corps. Experience

BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.

Director, Advisor Consultant 10/1994-7/2013

• Incepting member of BlackRock Funds Group

• Collaborated with the firm’s President in the design, origination and branding of BlackRock Funds retail product suite, rollout campaigns of its 1940 Act mutual funds and separately managed accounts during the firm’s developmental stages.

• Instrumental in establishing BlackRock Fund’s market presence and national retail distribution effort.

• Devised platform/product integration strategies and crafted methods for streamlining sales initiatives.

• Provided ongoing competitive market intelligence and participated in product development and introduction strategies.

• Active management of key contact relationships between BlackRock personnel and regional/complex managers, financial advisors, and private wealth relationships at wirehouse and independent broker/dealers including Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, UBS and Wells Fargo for the western United States.

• Drove sales across a broad range of investment products and solutions including open and closed-end mutual funds, separately managed accounts, and alternative investment strategies.

• Awarded BlackRock’s ‘Advisor/Consultant of the Year’ 12 times and won ‘Best Wholesaler in the West’ designation an additional 4 times.

• Acknowledged as the single largest producing Wholesaler within the BlackRock Wealth Advisory Channel.

• Direct Reports: 2 Junior Wholesalers, 2 Internal Wholesalers Pilgrim Group Inc., Los Angeles, CA

Senior Vice President 3/1985-9/1994

• Established Pilgrim’s Wealth Advisory platform and Private Client Group with company CEO.

• Devised product strategies and rollout campaigns based on extensive competitive market analysis and knowledge of industry trends.

• Spearheaded the origination of Corporate Cash Fund, Bank Load Fund and Non- Resident Alien Fund products.

• Directed all West Coast product distribution.

• Direct Reports: 4 Junior Wholesalers, 2 Internal Wholesalers Merrill Lynch, New York, NY

Vice President, New Products Coordinator 3/1981-11/1984

• Responsible for creation and introduction of Business Financial Services Division products and services to Merrill Lynch Consultants.

• Promoted from Tour Guide for Merrill Lynch Headquarters and NY Stock Exchange, to Retirement Plans and Services Marketing Specialist, to BFS New Products Coordinator.

Education

B.A. Fordham University, 1979

• Scholarship Recipient

• Fluent in Italian with extensive knowledge of Spanish and French

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