David Kabiller

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Biography

Mr. David Kabiller is a Co-Founder and serves as Principal & Head of Business Development at AQR Capital Management. He also serves as Principal at AQR Arbitrage. He also served as Vice President at Goldman Sachs between June 1986 - January 1997. He initiated AQR's international growth and its introduction of mutual funds and reinsurance as well as the creation of the "AQR University" symposia series and the AQR Insight Award for outstanding innovation in applied academic research. He has co-authored papers on topics including derivatives, enhanced indexation, securities lending, insurance-linked securities, hedge funds and the secret of Warren Buffett's investing acumen. He is a member of Northwestern University's Board of Trustees, chairman of the Executive Council of the university's International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) and has been a guest lecturer at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and Harvard Business School. He also is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Terra Foundation for American Art. Prior to AQR, he was a vice president at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he established and maintained relationships with the chief investment officers of many of the largest pension and endowment funds in North America. He earned a B.A. in economics and an M.B.A. from Northwestern, where he received an athletic scholarship to play tennis and was named to the Big Ten's Academic All-Conference team. A large donor to both academic and athletic scholarship programs, he established NU for Life, a program dedicated to the professional development of Northwestern student-athletes. He is a CFA charter holder. He served as a board member at Crow Holdings.