Dawn Fitzpatrick is an American

investment banker Investment banking pertains to certain activities of a financial services company or a corporate division that consist in advisory-based financial transactions on behalf of individuals, corporations, and governments. Traditionally associated with ...

and financial officer based in

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. She is known for her work as a

hedge fund A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that trades in relatively liquid assets and is able to make extensive use of more complex trading, portfolio-construction, and risk management techniques in an attempt to improve performance, such as sho ...

manager and as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) &

Chief Investment Officer The chief investment officer (CIO) is a job title for the board level head of investments within an organization. The CIO's purpose is to understand, manage, and monitor their organization's portfolio of assets, devise strategies for growth, act as ...

(CIO) at

Soros Fund Management Soros Fund Management, LLC is a private American investment management firm. It is currently structured as a family office, but formerly as a hedge fund. The firm was founded in 1970 by George Soros and, in 2010, was reported to be one of the mos ...

Early years

Fitzpatrick "is a second-generation

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with ancestors hailing from

Kilkenny Kilkenny (). is a city in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is located in the South-East Region and in the province of Leinster. It is built on both banks of the River Nore. The 2016 census gave the total population of Kilkenny as 26,512. Kilken ...

and

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on her father's and mother's side", and is a native of

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. She holds a

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from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

Wharton School of Business The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ( ; also known as Wharton Business School, the Wharton School, Penn Wharton, and Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in ...

. While at UPenn Fitzpatrick ran

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. She is divorced with three children.

Career

Fitzpatrick started working at

O'Connor & Associates O'Connor & Associates was a Chicago-based options trading firm, with particular emphasis on financial derivatives. The firm was acquired by Swiss Bank Corporation (later merged with Union Bank of Switzerland to form UBS). O'Connor was headquartere ...

in 1992 and went on to become the global head and CIO of O'Connor within the alternative and quantitative investments area. In August 2013, when O'Connor became a standalone business area within

UBS Global Asset Management UBS Group AG is a multinational Investment banking, investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland. Co-headquartered in the cities of Zürich and Basel, it maintains a presence in all major financial centres ...

, Fitzpatrick was promoted to global head and chief investment officer (CIO) at O'Connor. In January 2016, Fitzpatrick became the Global Head of Equities, Multi-Asset and O'Connor at UBS Asset Management, responsible for overseeing more than $500 billion in assets. In January 2017, she became Head of Investments within UBS Asset Management. She was also a member of the UBS Asset Management Executive Committee. In April 2017, Fitzpatrick became the Chief Investment Officer of

. She currently serves on the

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' Economic Justice Program advisory board, the

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's Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets, as a non-executive Director on the

Barclays Barclays () is a British multinational universal bank, headquartered in London, England. Barclays operates as two divisions, Barclays UK and Barclays International, supported by a service company, Barclays Execution Services. Barclays traces ...

board, and sits on the Advisory Council of The Bretton Woods Committee. Fitzpatrick was named one of ''Business Insider'' most powerful women on

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in 2013. In 2015, ''

American Banker ''American Banker'' is a Manhattan-based trade publication covering the financial services industry. Originally a daily newspaper, the print edition ceased publication in 2016, with an online edition continuing to be updated. The first issue of ...

'' put her on their list of the 25 most powerful women in finance and ''

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'' put her on the list of 50 leading women in

s. In 2018 and 2019, Fitzpatrick was on the '' Worth'' Power 100, a list of "the 100 most powerful men and women in global finance." In 2020 and 2021, ''

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'' listed her as one of the "100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance", and the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Club of New York presented Fitzpatrick with the 2020 Joseph Wharton Award for Leadership "for the Wharton alumnus who embodies the highest standards of leadership in both business and society."

References

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