Nir Bar Dea has been tapped as Bridgewater’s new co-CEO, one of two leaders of the world’s largest hedge fund, which manages $150 billion in assets.  He entered finance in 2015, starting at Bridgewater as a management associate, where he made his mark merging the research, portfolio construction, and trading departments into a single investment engine, which he ran beginning in 2019.

In February 2021, he was promoted to deputy CEO. In 2020, he was named in Fortune’s “40 Under 40 in Finance,” owing to his quick response to the coronavirus pandemic, when he relocated the firm’s investment engine office outdoors so that employees could work safely without losing the proximity of an in-person office.