Raymond Iwanowski

Ray is Founding Principal and co-Founder of SECOR Asset Management, a boutique global asset management firm that provides advisory and portfolio solution capabilities for institutional clients. Ray has served as Chief Investment Officer of SECOR’s quantitative investment platform.

Prior to founding SECOR, Ray was Co-Chief Investment Officer of the Quantitative Investment Strategies group at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), managing a wide range of multi-asset class products, including the group’s flagship hedge fund. While at Goldman Sachs, he was named Managing Director in 1999 and Partner in 2004. Before GSAM, Ray worked at Salomon Brothers and First Boston in various fixed-income research roles.  At Salomon, he authored several publications on fixed income asset allocation and fixed-income derivatives and has published articles in The Journal of Portfolio Management and The Journal of Fixed Income.

Ray has served on the Board of Trustees at Good Shepherd Services, a New York City based social services agency and as a member of the advisory board of the Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  In 2024, Ray established the Democracy Innovation Fund at the University of Chicago — a campus partnership supporting democracy-strengthening research and engagement at and across the Harris School of Public Policy, the Institute of Politics (IOP), and the Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression, and other schools and initiatives across the University.  He was recently named to the Harris Council at the University of Chicago.  Ray also serves on the Board of Trustees of the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton, NY and on the Board of Trustees of Trevor Day School, a private school located in New York City. Ray earned a B.S. and B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (1988) and M.B.A. from the University of Chicago (1997).