Managing Director & Head of Fundamental Equities, D. E. Shaw & Co.

Edwin Jager is a managing director of D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. and Head of Fundamental Equities for the D. E. Shaw group. In that capacity, Mr. Jager oversees the firm’s fundamental long/short equities, special situation, and activist investment activities globally, including alternative data-driven fundamental equity research and development. He formerly served as a rotating member of the firm’s Risk Committee. Mr. Jager joined the D. E. Shaw group in 2011 and previously served as Portfolio Manager for the technology, media, and telecommunications sector within the firm’s Fundamental Equities Strategies. He previously served as sector head for technology equities at Perry Capital, LLC. Mr. Jager began his career at Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc., where he rose to the position of senior analyst in that firm’s technology corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions group. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University, where he earned a dual degree, with honors, in ethics, politics, and economics and political science and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Jager received his J.D. from Stanford Law School and M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.