Dawn Fitzpatrick is an American

investment banker Investment banking is an advisory-based financial service for institutional investors, corporations, governments, and similar clients. Traditionally associated with corporate finance, such a bank might assist in raising financial capital by unde ...

and

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manager. She is the chief executive officer (CEO) and chief investment officer (CIO) at

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

Early years

Fitzpatrick "is a second-generation

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with ancestors hailing from

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and

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

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. She earned a bachelor's degree from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

Wharton School of Business The Wharton School ( ) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. Established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton, a co-founder of Bethlehem Steel, the Wharton ...

. While at UPenn Fitzpatrick ran track. She is divorced with three children.

Career

Fitzpatrick started working at O'Connor & Associates 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 (stylized simply as UBS) is a multinational Investment banking, investment bank and financial services firm founded and based in Switzerland, with headquarters in both Zurich and Basel. It holds a strong foothold in all major fina ...

, 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 is 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

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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, ''

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'' 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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