 He was formerly the head of the $9.3 billion TCW Total Return Bond Fund.Jeffrey Gundlach was born on October 30, 1959 in Amherst, New York, where his father was a chemist for Pierce and Stevens Chemical Corp.He is a graduate of Dartmouth College where he graduated "summa cum laude" in math and philosophy in 1981, and attended Yale University for a Ph.D. in theoretical mathematics before dropping out.