ISRP July 2021 Call - Conversation with Amy Wierenga, CRO at GCM Grosvenor

ISRP July Member's Call

Join your fellow ISRP members on Wednesday, July 28th at 1pm ET  for a 1 hour conversation with Amy Wierenga, Chief Risk Officer at GCM Grosvenor, about Investment Risk in a multi-mandate asset manager: GCM Grosvenor.

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Presenter Bio

Ms. Wierenga is the firm’s Chief Risk Officer and is responsible for global risk strategy and oversight. She is a member of the Absolute Return Strategies Investment Committee and the Private Equity, Real Estate and Infrastructure Investment Committee. Prior to joining GCM Grosvenor, Ms. Wierenga spent 12 years at BlueMountain Capital Management. At BlueMountain, Ms. Wierenga was a Partner and served as Chief Risk Officer overseeing Risk and Portfolio Construction. She also led BlueMountain’s Treasury and Operations functions during her tenure. Previously, Ms. Wierenga was with Merrill Lynch in the Global Rates and FX trading division and the Federal Reserve Bank where she was a commissioned Bank Examiner and Market and Liquidity Risk Specialist. Ms. Wierenga received her Bachelor of Science in Economics and Bachelor of Arts in Music cum laude from Butler University and her Master of Business Administration in Analytic Finance, Econometrics & Statistics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She chairs the Endowment and Investment Committee as a member of the Board of Trustees of Butler University, is a member of the Board of Advisors for Rutgers RTWS, and was recognized by the Hedge Fund Journal as one of the 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds in 2018.