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Fred joined Bridgewater in 2003 and is currently Head of Resiliency Alpha strategies and a Partner at the firm. As Head of Resiliency Alpha strategies, he is responsible for the strategy, oversight, and evolution of Bridgewater’s tailored alpha portfolios as well as partnering with our clients to develop tailored investment strategies that improve portfolio resiliency.

Chip Packard joined Bridgewater in 2016 and serves as Global Head of Strategic Partnerships for Bridgewater’s Client Service department. In his role, he is responsible for developing and managing the client and commercial strategy across Asia Pacific and the Middle East, as well as building strategic advisory relationships and delivering tailored portfolio strategies to clients across those regions. Chip is also a Partner of the firm.

Joel joined Bridgewater in 2002 and is Global Head of Business Development and a Partner at the firm. He oversees and is responsible for global new business development in Bridgewater's Advisory business.

Jim joined Bridgewater in 2003 and is Head of Client Service and a Partner at the firm while also serving as the Editor of the Bridgewater Daily Observations. He chairs the firm’s Commercial Committee and was a member of Bridgewater’s Operating Board of Directors from 2018-2025 where he was one of three people named a Bridgewater Seed Partner, tasked with building out all aspects of Bridgewater’s partnership to help transition the firm from an iconic founder to its next phase as an institutional money management firm. From 2003 to 2020, he served as a Senior Portfolio Strategist.

Drawing on leadership experience from the Israeli Defense Forces, the United Nations, and as an entrepreneur, Bridgewater’s Co-Head of Investment Engine was recognized alongside other influential changemakers in the industry.

Even before the COVID-19 crisis, it was clear that traditional economic measures had increasingly diverged from social outcomes. Despite a decade of economic expansion and falling unemployment, social conditions deteriorated across a variety of measures. COVID-19 has brought these pressures to a head. Looking ahead, social conditions will have rising impacts on markets as policy evolves to more explicitly consider such issues in evaluating its goals. Fiscal policy is likely to take on a greater role in the decade to come, and is inherently distributional. The Fed, too, is increasingly taking into account social disparities.

Bridgewater’s Distinguished Speaker Series welcomed Hollywood producer Brian Grazer. Named one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” Grazer co-founded Imagine Entertainment with cinema legend Ron Howard in 1986 and is responsible for iconic titles like Splash, Apollo 13, and A Beautiful Mind.

In an op-ed written for the Financial Times, CEO David McCormick suggests how policymakers can renew and sustain America’s global economic leadership in the aftermath of the pandemic, advocating for a robust national innovation policy agenda.

Fulfilling dual roles as a researcher and idea-generator within our investment engine, as well as partner to Bridgewater’s sophisticated institutional client base, Senior Portfolio Strategist Phil Dobrin has established an impressive track record. He is recognized by Business Insider alongside a short list of others expected to be the next crop of leaders in finance.