Point72: Fireside Chat with Jaimi Goodfriend, Head of Point72 Academy and Professor Michael Weinberg

Jaimi Goodfriend

Head of Point72 Academy, Head of Professional Development

Point72 Asset Management

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimi-goodfriend-cfa-2b93942/

Jaimi Goodfriend is the Head of Investment Professional Development and the Director of the Point72 Academy, Point72’s initiative to recruit and train new college graduates as long/short (L/S) equities investment professionals on an accelerated schedule.

Prior to joining Point72, Ms. Goodfriend was an adjunct lecturer at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and DePaul University in Chicago. In 2012, she developed, launched, and was named the Director of the University of Illinois’ Investment Banking Academy. Before teaching collegiately, Ms. Goodfriend was an equity research analyst in the hedge fund industry, most recently at Citadel Investment Group and Balyasny Asset Management. Before joining Balyasny, Ms. Goodfriend worked as an equity research analyst at First Analysis Corporation. She has served as a manager of absolute returns and fixed income at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and began her career in Mergers and Acquisitions at Bank of America.

Ms. Goodfriend received her BA in economics from University of Michigan and her MBA from the J. L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Michael O. Weinberg

Adjunct Professor of Finance

Columbia Business School

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeloliverweinberg/

For 29 years Michael has invested directly at the security level and indirectly as an asset allocator in traditional and alternative asset classes.  He is a Managing Director, Head of Hedge Funds and Alternative Alpha, and on the Investment Committee at APG, a world leader in Environmental, Social and Governance Investing.  Previously he was the Chief Investment Officer at MOV37 and Protege Partners.  Michael is also an Adjunct Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia Business School, where he teaches Institutional Investing, an advanced MBA course that he created. 

Michael also testifies as an expert witness in financial and technology litigation.  He was a portfolio manager and global head of equities at FRM, a multi-strategy investment solutions provider.  Prior to that, Michael was a portfolio manager at Soros, the macro fund and family office, and at Credit Suisse.  Before that he was a Real Estate analyst at Dean Witter.

Michael is a board member of AIMA.  He is on the Milken Institute’s Global Capital Markets Advisory Council, the management advisory council for the Michael Price Student Investment Fund and a Special Advisor to The Tokyo University of Science’s Endowment.  Michael is a former co-founder of Project Punch Card, a not-for-profit organization, and The Artificial Intelligence in Finance Institute. He is a member of The Economic Club of New York.  Michael is a former Chair at CFANY, where he has received multiple awards, including Volunteer of the Year.  He has researched the impact of AI on Finance for The World Economic Forum.  

Michael is a published author, having written for The New York Times, Institutional Investor and investment books. He has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNBC, Bloomberg and Reuters. He is a frequent panelist, moderator and lecturer for investment banks, institutional and family office organizations and business schools.  Michael has a BS from New York University and an MBA from Columbia University.