Eileen Murray
Eileen Murray is an award-winning leader in the financial services industry with a career spanning more than 40 years. Murray is the former Co-CEO of Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund. During her tenure, the firm added more than $50 billion in assets and became the second-longest serving chief executive in Bridgewater’s history after founder Ray Dalio. Prior to joining Bridgewater, she held several senior executive roles at Morgan Stanley and served as Head of Global Technology, Operations and Product Control at Credit Suisse, where she oversaw an annual budget of $4 billion and was the first woman to serve on CSFB’s Executive Board. Today, Murray is a Member of the Board of Directors for HSBC, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, Broadridge Financial Solutions, and the Irish Arts Center, among others. She is also an investor in and advisor to several start-up ventures in the artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and machine learning spaces.
Eileen Murray Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Board Member
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Member, Board of Governors
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Co-CEO
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Managing Director
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Board Member
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Managing Director
Academic History
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B.S., Accounting
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Independent Non-Executive Director, HSBC
Non-Executive Director, Broadridge Financial Solutions
Non-Executive Director, Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Senior Advisor, HumanityCorp
Board Member, Irish Arts Center
Murray joined Morgan Stanley in 1984 and was named Managing Director in 1991.
She also served as the bank’s Controller and Chief Accounting Officer following its merger with Dean Witter in 1997.
She served as Global Head of Technology and Operations, overseeing more than 10,000 employees and an annual budget of $5.5 billion.
RECOGNITIONS
2020 Irish America Hall of Fame
2019 Ireland Funds’ Leslie C. Quick Jr. Leadership Award
2018 Women’s Entrepreneurship Day's Finance Pioneer Award
2017 Markets Media Women in Finance’s Lifetime Achievement Award
2017 Afterschool Champion by the Partnership for Afterschool Education
2016 Irish America Magazine Business 100 Best and Brightest Leaders
2013 YMCA of Greater New York’s Arts & Letters Award for Outstanding Leadership
2013 Hedge Fund Journal 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds
2008 25 Most Powerful Non-Bank Women in Banking by American Banker
2003 Bond Market Association Woman of the Year
2002 Pathfinder Award
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Murray has been featured in various financial media outlets and publications.
She has been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Business Insider, Reuters, CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, Fox Business, Yahoo! Finance, and Institutional Investor.