Eileen Murray was born on 1958 and is an American financial services executive and is the former co-CEO at Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest institutional asset managers.
22 Facts About Eileen Murray
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Eileen Murray was named one of the 25 Most Powerful Non-Bank Women in Banking, by US Banker, for the years 2007 and 2008.
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Eileen Murray was born to Irish-American parents and raised in public housing in Inwood, Manhattan.
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Eileen Murray graduated from Manhattan College in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science in accounting.
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Eileen Murray joined Morgan Stanley in 1984 as a senior analyst in the controller's office.
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Eileen Murray was promoted to the positions of vice president in 1988 and became a principal in 1991.
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Eileen Murray was controller and treasurer prior to the merger of Morgan Stanley Group and Dean Witter Discover.
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Eileen Murray served as chief operating officer of Morgan Stanley's Institutional Securities Group from 1999 to 2002.
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Eileen Murray left Morgan Stanley in 2002, and joined Credit Suisse First Boston.
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Eileen Murray received the Women's Bond Club's Merit Achievement Award in 2003.
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Eileen Murray received the Legal Momentum's Aiming High Award in 2007 and was named one of the 25 Most Powerful Non-Bank Women in Banking by US Banker in the years 2007 and 2008.
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Eileen Murray became Chief Executive Officer of Investment Risk Management LLC from 2008 to 2009, after serving as co-Chief Executive Officer, President and Partner at Duff Capital Advisors.
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Eileen Murray joined Bridgewater Associates in 2009 and was named co-Chief Executive Officer in 2011.
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Eileen Murray previously held positions of co-President and Chief Operating Officer, and served as a member of the company's management committee.
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Eileen Murray stepped down as co-CEO when she left the firm in April 2020.
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In 2020 Eileen Murray filed a suit against Bridgewater claiming deferred payments were being withheld due to her disclosing a separate suit against Bridgewater based on gender discrimination.
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Eileen Murray claimed she disclosed the dispute to FINRA, a regulatory agency she now chairs, and made Bridgewater aware of this disclosure.
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On June 30,2020, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority announced that Eileen Murray had been elected Chair of the self-regulating group responsible for US broker dealers.
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Eileen Murray is a member of the board of directors for global financial services firm HSBC Holdings plc; The Guardian Life insurance Company of America; and the Irish Arts Center since 2016.
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In 2020, Eileen Murray was inducted into the Irish America Hall of Fame.
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Eileen Murray received the Ireland Funds' Leslie C Quick Jr.
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In 2017, Eileen Murray received the Markets Media Women in Finance's Lifetime Achievement Award and was named Afterschool Champion by the Partnership for Afterschool Education.