PIMCO names product strategy group head Manager also chooses new head of Asia-Pacific amid executive reshuffle PIMCO appointed Kimberley Stafford, managing director, as global head of a newly formed product strategy group, among other personnel moves, a news release said Wednesday. Ms. Stafford's role also is new and "combines the oversight of product teams in traditional and private strategies," PIMCO spokeswoman Agnes Crane said in an email. Ms. Stafford currently is head of Asia-Pacific for PIMCO and is based in Hong Kong. She will return to PIMCO's headquarters in Newport Beach, Calif., midyear to assume her new role. Managing director