Vlad Barbalat is President and Chief Investment Officer of Liberty Mutual Investments (LMI). In this role, he leads the investments business for Liberty Mutual Insurance, overseeing LMI’s mission to create capital by managing the company’s globally invested financial assets. Vlad joined the company in 2017 as Head of Investment Strategy and was later promoted to Co-Head of Strategy and Asset Allocation for LMI. In 2021, he was appointed to his current role. In 2003, Vlad began his career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York, where he spent 13 years and held several leadership positions — including his promotion to Managing Director in 2012 — across proprietary investing businesses a