Pinebridge Investments Names New CFO

Tom Burroughes

2 April 2019

, the asset management house, has named former Soros Fund Management senior figure Tracie E Ahern as chief financial officer. Ahern replaces David Kolker, who until recently held the role since 2010.

Ahern, who will join the firm’s management committee and be based in New York, will report to PineBridge chief operating officer Michael J Karpik.

This publication has asked for clarification over whether Ahern is filling a newly-created post or a vacated one.

With more than 28 years in the investment management industry, Ahern has 10 years of CFO experience with alternative and long-only funds. Most recently, she served as an independent trustee for the Advisor Inner Circle Trust, a $60 billion investment trust, as well as acting as an independent director on various alternative funds.

From 2007-2015 she was CFO for Soros Fund Management, where she managed the treasury, operations, fund administration and management company finances and served as a director on numerous boards for Quantum Fund related entities.

Previously, Ahern was the vice president of capital markets accounting for Freddie Mac, overseeing financial reporting for over $800 billion of mortgage bonds and loans and $1 trillion of derivative assets. She was also a partner and director of fund administration and operations at Lord, Abbett & Co, and held tax, compliance and fund administration posts at Bankers Trust, Morgan Grenfell and Goldman Sachs Asset Management.