Top women in hedge funds: To call the hedge fund space an “old boy’s club” may have been accurate 50 years ago, but in 2013, it’s as much of a woman’s game as it is a man’s. The Hedge Fund Journal has shared its 2013 list of the 50 leading women in hedge funds, and we’d thought it’d be a good read here.
The list features some of the top hedge funds as well as other companies involved in investment activities, including Tudor Investment Corp, Highfields Capital Management, Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking Global, Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates, and major publicly-traded companies like JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM), Deutsche Bank AG (USA) (NYSE:DB) and Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS).
Let’s take a look at the list of the top women in hedge funds:
No. 50 Jamie Zimmerman
Company: Litespeed Management LLC
Function: Founder
No. 49 Roslyn Zhang
Company: China Investment Corporation
Function: Managing Director
No. 48 Louise Zarrilli
Company: Tudor Investment Corp.
Function: Partner, Managing Director
No. 47 Galia Velimukhametova
Company: Man GLG
Function: Portfolio Manager
No. 46 Effie Vasilopolous
Company: Sidley Austin
Function: Partner
No. 45 Geraldine Sundstrom
Company: Brevan Howard
Function: Partner
No. 44 Jennifer Stier
Company: Highfields Capital
Function: Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer
No. 43 Rose Shabet
Company: Viking Global Investors LP
Function: Chief Operating Officer
No. 42 Purnima Puri
Company: Highbridge Principal Strategies
Function: Founding Partner
No. 41 Ingrid Pierce
Company: Walkers Global
Function: Global Managing Partner
No. 40 Suzi Nutton
Company: Lansdowne Capital Partners
Function: Chief Operating Officer
No. 39 Anita Nemes
Company: Deutsche Bank
Function: Global Head of Capital Introduction
No. 38 Su Mustier
Company: Albourne Partners
Function: Partner
No. 37 Eileen Murray
Company: Bridgewater Associates, LP
Function: Co-President, Co-Chief Operating Officer
No. 36 Andrea Morrall
Company: OVS Capital Management LLP
Function: Partner, Chief Operating Officer
No. 35 Jane Mendillo
Company: Harvard Management Company
Function: President, Chief Executive Officer
No. 34 Michelle McCloskey
Company: FRM
Function: Senior Managing Director
No. 33 Marie-Hélène S. McAndrew
Company: Permal
Function: Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager
No. 32 Marina Lewin
Company: BNY Mellon
Function: Head of Sales for Asset Servicing in the Americas, Global Head of Sales for Alternative Investment
No. 31 Vivian Lau
Company: Serengeti Asset Management
Function: Partner, Co-Portfolio Manager
No. 30 Annette Krassner
Company: Pine River Capital Management
Function: Chief Administrative Officer
No. 29 Pam Kiernan
Company: Deutsche Bank
Function: Managing Director
No. 28 Massi Khadjenouri
Company: Kite Lake Capital Management
Function: Chief Investment Officer, Co-Founder
No. 27 Kathleen M. Kelley
Company: Queen Anne’s Gate Capital Management
Function: Founder, Chief Investment Officer
No. 26 Nora Jordan
Company: Davis Polk
Function: Partner
No. 25 Shirin Ismail
Company: Fullerton Fund Management
Function: Head of Absolute Return
No. 24 Teresa Heitsenrether
Company: J.P. Morgan
Function: Managing Director, Global Head of Prime Brokerage
No. 23 Kathryn Hall
Company: Hall Capital Partners LLC
Function: Chief Executive Officer, Co-Chief Investment Officer
No. 22 Samantha Greenberg
Company: Paulson & Co.
Function: Partner
No. 21 Karyn Geringer
Company: CQS
Function: Principal, Head of Marketing (Americas)
No. 20 Sonia Gardner
Company: Avenue Capital
Function: President, Managing Partner, Co-Founder
No. 19 Lisa Fridman
Company: PAAMCO Europe
Function: Managing Director, Head of European Research
No. 18 Kristen Eshak Weldon
Company: Blackstone
Function: Managing Director
No. 17 Marcy Engel
Company: Eton Park
Function: Partner, Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel
No. 16 Lucy Elwes
Company: Theleme Partners
Function: Partner
No. 15 Anne Dinning
Company: D.E. Shaw & Co.
Function: Managing Director
No. 14 Genia Diamond
Company: Cantab Capital Partners
Function: Partner
No. 13 Jodi DeVito
Company: Credit Suisse
Function: Managing Director
No. 12 Elaine Crocker
Company: Moore Capital
Function: President
No. 11 Anastasia Critides
Company: Morgan Stanley International
Function: Executive Director
No. 10 Elaine Co
Company: Janchor Partners Limited
Function: Partner, Co-Founder
No. 9 Soraya Chabarek
Company: CQS
Function: Head of European Sales
No. 8 Fiona Carpenter
Company: Ernst & Young LLP
Function: Partner, Co-Head of European Asset Management Tax Practice
No. 7 Jane Buchan
Company: PAAMCO
Function: Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder
No. 6 Stephanie R. Breslow
Company: Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
Function: Partner
No. 5 Leda Braga
Company: BlueCrest Capital Management
Function: Geneva
No. 4 Natalie Birrell
Company: Anchorage Capital Group, L.L.C.
Function: Partner, Chief Operating Officer
No. 3 Jennifer L. Ancker Whelen
Company: Graham Capital Management
Function: Managing Director
No. 2 Elena Ambrodiadou
Company: IKOS
Function: Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
No. 1 Katherine Abrat
Company: Goldman Sachs
Function: Executive Director
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