Ralph is a managing director of Morgan Stanley Investment Management Fixed Income, a portfolio manager and a senior credit analyst on the floating-rate loan team. He is responsible for buy and sell decisions, portfolio construction and risk management for the firm’s floating-rate loan strategies. He joined Eaton Vance in 2003. Ralph began his career in the investment management industry in 1997. Before joining Eaton Vance, he was a vice president in the communications lending division of Citizens Bank and its credit training program and a lending officer at State Street Bank. Ralph earned a B.A. from Bates College and an MBA, with honors, from Boston University Graduate School of Management. He is a member of the CFA Society Boston and is a CFA charterholder. Ralph serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA).