George N. Patterson, PhD, CFA, CFP

George N. Patterson, PhD, CFA, CFP

PGIM Quantitative Solutions Chief Investment Officer

George N. Patterson, PhD, CFA, CFP, is a Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer at PGIM Quantitative Solutions. In this role, he oversees all portfolio management and research activities across the Quantitative Equity and Multi Asset teams.

Prior to his current role, Patterson served as Co Head of the Quantitative Equity team at PGIM Quantitative Solutions, where he was responsible for portfolio management, investment research, and new product development.

Before joining PGIM in 2017, he was a Managing Director in Corporate Strategy at Axioma, Inc., focusing on identifying buy side trends and market opportunities. Previously, Patterson served as Chief Investment Officer for Quantitative Investments at Bank of Montreal Global Asset Management, with responsibility for global equities and multi asset strategies, including stand alone asset allocation funds, FX overlays, retail fund of funds, and ETF based multi asset solutions.

Earlier in his career, Patterson was a Co Founder and Managing Partner at Menta Capital LLC, a California based quantitative equity hedge fund, and a Senior Portfolio Manager in equity market neutral strategies at Barclays Global Investors. He began his career at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Patterson earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD in Physics from Boston University.