Chris Piros

Dr. Christopher D.
Piros, PhD CFA, is Senior Vice President & Managing Director at PNC Bank, NA.
In this role he leads the team that has established overall strategic and tactical guidance of client portfolio, oversees the revolution of investment processes, and provided though leadership investment issues.
He chairman the Hawthron and IAM Investment Policy Committee and serves several Asset Management group investment Committees.
He joined PNC from CFA Institute where he served on the team responsible for the curriculum underlying the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Previously, he was Director of Investment Strategy & Portfolio Management at Prudential Investments LLC, the wealth management services arm of Prudential Financial, where he established and led the unit’s discretionary portfolio management activities.
He and his team also formulated the investment strategy advice disseminated through the firm’s wealth management platform, developed its proprietary asset allocation methodology, and counseled Prudential’s investment boards on the outlook for capital markets and the global economy.
Earlier he was a global fixed income portfolio manager and head of fixed income quantitative analysis at MFS Investment Management.
Dr. Piros earned his Ph.D.
in Economics at Harvard University.