Britt Harris
Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer and Founder
40 years of investment experience
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Britt Harris has led some of the largest institutional investors in the United States. He served as President, CEO and CIO of UTIMCO, the University of Texas and Texas A&M investment company; as CIO of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas; as CEO of Bridgewater Associates; as President and CIO of Verizon Investment Management; and most recently as acting CEO and CIO of the Texas Permanent School Fund. He is the only investor to have served as chief investment officer of top-five funds in four categories: endowments, public funds, corporate plans and hedge funds.
Britt has served on the President's Working Group for Financial Markets and as an advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the New York Stock Exchange. He received the aiCIO Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the Hedge Fund Hall of Fame. He teaches Titans of Investing, a course he founded, at Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin.
Over four decades Britt has directly managed more than $500 billion and actively advised more than $3 trillion. He has advised the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Dallas and the New York Stock Exchange, chaired a presidential task force on Social Security, served as an investment ambassador for the United States to China, Japan, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, and oversaw pension operations in 19 countries. He was named a top-five global asset owner every year for more than a decade, received three lifetime achievement awards, and pioneered strategic partnerships and the target-date fund structure now used across the industry.
