Anne Dinning

Anne Dinning joined the D.E. Shaw Group in 1990, after receiving a Ph.D. in computer science from New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, where she won the Howard Grad Memorial Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Candidate and an undergraduate degree in computer science from the University of Washington. From 1995 until her retirement in 1999, she was the managing director responsible for the firm's worldwide asset management activities (including the equity and equity-linked strategies and fixed income-related strategies), as well as in 1996 for the management of an international broker dealer business based in London. In August 2002, Dr. Dinning rejoined the D.E. Shaw Group as a managing director. She is a member of the executive committee of D.E. Shaw & Co., L.P. and D.E. Shaw & Co., LLC., in which capacity she jointly supervises the D.E. Shaw group's worldwide asset management business. She serves as chief investment officer of D.E. Shaw Investment Management, LLC and is a member of that entity's executive committee, as well as of the D.E. Shaw group's private equity and real estate investment committees. Dr. Dinning was a member of the Asset Managers' Committee of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets in 2010. She was the 2006 recipient of the Industry Leadership Award presented by 100 Women in Hedge Funds, an organization committed to the professional advancement of women in the alternative investment industry. She is the vice-chair of the board of directors of the Robin Hood Foundation and a founder of Code.org. Dinning has two children; the older one, Sam Wolf, is a recent graduate of Williams College and is politically active, e.g. as a Congressional aide.