Eileen Murray is a member of the Venturewave Capital Global Advisory Council.
Eileen Murray is a member of the board of directors for global financial services firm HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE: HSBC), The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE:BR), and the Irish Arts Centre. Murray joined Morgan Stanley in 1984 and was named Managing Director in 1991. She served as Controller, Treasurer, and Chief Operating Officer of the firm’s institutional securities business. She spent three years at Credit Suisse First Boston from 2002 to 2005, where she was Head of Global Technology, Operations and Product Control, oversaw 7,000 employees and a $4 billion budget, and was the first woman to serve on CSFB’s Executive Board. She returned to Morgan Stanley in 2005, serving as Head of Global Technology and Operations, overseeing 15,000 employees and a $5.5 billion budget, and sitting on the firm’s Management Committee. She retired from the firm in 2007.
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. She joined Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, in 2009 and was named co-Chief Executive Officer in 2011. The firm added more than $50 billion in assets during her tenure. She left the firm in April 2020.
Murray has served on several other boards, including the Board of Governors of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), from 2016 to 2022, serving as Chair from 2000-2022; Compass, a real estate company, from 2020 to 2022; the YMCA of Greater New York from 2005 until 2015; the Business Council for International Understanding from 2013 to 2016; Inwood House from 2004 to 2016; the Depository Trust Company, serving as Chairperson for its Compensation Committee, from 2001 to 2005; OMEGO, where she served as Chair of Audit Committee, from 2001 to 2005; Hewlett-Packard Financial Services Advisory Board from 2003 to 2005, Manhattan College Board of Trustees from 2001 to 2013; Argonne National Laboratory, serving on its Audit Committee, from 2007 to 2012; and the American Women’s Development Corporation from 1997 to 2004.
In 2020, Murray was inducted into the Irish America Hall of Fame. She received the Ireland Funds’ Leslie C. Quick Jr. Leadership Award in 2019. In 2018, she received the Finance Pioneer Award at Women’s Entrepreneurship Day at the United Nations and was Manhattan College’s alumna recipient of the De La Salle Medal of Honor.
In 2017, Murray received the Markets Media Women in Finance’s Lifetime Achievement Award and was named Afterschool Champion by the Partnership for Afterschool Education. In 2016 she was named among Irish America Magazine’s Business 100 Best and Brightest Leaders. In 2013, she received the YMCA of Greater New York’s Arts & Letters Award for Outstanding Leadership and was named one of the 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds by the Hedge Fund Journal. In 2002, she received the Pathfinder Award.
In 2003 she was named the Bond Market Association Woman of the Year. In 2005, she received the Urban Stages Humanitarian Award. In 2006, she was co-Chair of the YWCA and was recognised at the Academy of Women Leaders Salute Benefit and by The League Treatment Centre. In 2007 and 2008, she was ranked among the 25 Most Powerful Non-Bank Women in Banking by American Banker (formerly U.S. Banker) and received Legal Momentum’s 2017 Aiming High Award.
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