Biography
Ms. Murray is the former Co-Chief Executive Officer of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund with $138 billion in assets under management. She was named Co-CEO in 2011, becoming the second-longest serving chief executive in Bridgewater’s history after founder Ray Dalio. She previously served as Co-President and Chief Operating Officer.
Prior to joining Bridgewater, Ms. Murray held several senior executive roles at Morgan Stanley, which she joined in 1984. From 2005 to 2007, she served as Global Head of Technology and Operations, overseeing more than 10,000 employees and an annual budget of $5.5 billion. She also served on the bank’s executive and management committees. From 1999 to 2002, she served as Chief Operating Officer in the bank’s Institutional Securities Group. Before that, she served as the bank’s Controller and Chief Accounting Officer following its merger with Dean Witter in 1997. Prior to the merger, she served as Controller and Treasurer. She was named Managing Director in 1994.
Ms. Murray left Morgan Stanley in 2002 for three years to serve as Head of Global Technology, Operations and Product Control at Credit Suisse First Boston. There, she oversaw more than 7,000 employees and an annual budget of $4 billion. She was the first woman to serve on the bank’s executive board.
Eileen Murray is now the Chair of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), where she has served on the Board of Governors since 2016.
For her industry leadership and extensive philanthropic work with several distinctions, Ms. Murray has been recognized with many awards, including the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Organization Pioneer Award in Finance from the United Nations, the Lifetime Achievement Award from Markets Media, Hedge Fund Journal’s 50 Leading Women in the hedge fund industry, U.S. Banker’s Most Powerful Non-Bank Women in Banking, among others.
Ms. Murray is an investor in and advisor to several start-up ventures in the artificial intelligence and machine learning spaces, including Credibility, which uses AI to analyze and score content for accuracy based on other available data sources, and Intelligo, which uses AI to automate and optimize diligence processing in financial services.
