Kathe Macleod, Board Member

Katherine Macleod is a senior vice president of D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. and a senior member of the D. E. Shaw group’s Risk unit, where she leads the risk analyst team. Prior to joining the firm in 2019, Ms. Macleod spent seven years at Senator Investment Group LP, where she served as a managing director and head of risk management. Before that, she spent ten years at Goldman Sachs & Co., where she last served as a vice president in that firm’s prime brokerage risk management group.

Ms. Macleod received her B.S. in mathematics/economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. She holds the CFA Institute’s Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and the Professional Risk Manager designation conferred by the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association.