Jeff Harris serves as the firm’s Chief Risk Officer and oversees quantitative risk modeling, monitoring and reporting. He is also involved with new strategy evaluation, portfolio optimization, mathematical modeling technique development, artificial intelligence implementation and signal research.
Before beginning his tenure at Magnetar in 2016, Jeff was a Principal at Riley Creek Capital Management. Previously, he was a Portfolio Manager and Managing Director of the Quantitative Strategies Fund at Black River Asset Management.
Jeff earned his PhD degree in Physics from Princeton University with a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from Brigham Young University.
