Eileen K. Murray | |
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Born | 1958 (age 58–59) Inwood, Manhattan |
Occupation | co-president and COO |
Employer | Bridgewater Associates |
Eileen Murray (born 1958) is an American financial services executive and is co-CEO at Bridgewater Associates. Murray has held executive positions at Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse First Boston, Duff Capital Advisors and Investment Risk Management. She was named one of the 25 Most Powerful Non-Bank Women in Banking, by U.S. Banker magazine, for the years 2007 and 2008.
Murray graduated from Manhattan College in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting.
Murray joined Morgan Stanley in 1984 as a Senior Analyst in the Controller's office. She was promoted to the positions of Vice President in 1988 and became a Principal in 1991. In 1994 she became the company's Managing Director. Murray was Controller and Treasurer prior to the merger of Morgan Stanley Group and Dean Witter Discover. After the merger, she became the Controller and Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) for the firm. Murray also served as Chief Administrative Officer of Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Securities Group from 1999 to 2002.
Murray left Morgan Stanley in 2002, and joined Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). At CSFB, she was Head of Global Technology, Operations and product control and managed over 7,000 employees and a $4.0 billion budget. Appointed to CSFB’s Divisional Committee, she was the first woman to serve on CSFB’s Executive Board.
She received the Women’s Bond Club's Merit Achievement Award in 2003.
In 2005, she returned to Morgan Stanley where she served as an Executive and Management Committee member and received the Urban Stages Humanitarian Award. Up until 2007, Murray was a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, Head of Global Technology and Operations and a member of the firm’s Management Committee supervising 10,000 employees and a $5.5 billion budget. Murray retired from Morgan Stanley in 2007.