Eric Wepsic is a managing director of D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. and, as a member of the Executive Committee of D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. and D. E. Shaw & Co., L.L.C., jointly supervises the D. E. Shaw group’s worldwide businesses.
He joined the firm in 1994 and is responsible for overseeing much of the firm’s systematic alternative investment activities and its global trading and information technology platforms. In addition, Mr. Wepsic serves on the firm’s Risk Committee, which is responsible for firmwide risk management and capital allocation, and has oversight responsibility for the activities of the D. E. Shaw group’s Chief Risk Officer.
Mr. Wepsic graduated with an A.B. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1992 and earned his A.M. in mathematics from the same institution in 1994. While at Harvard, he was twice a winner of the award granted to the top five scorers in the internationally renowned William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Examination. Mr. Wepsic was also a 1987 gold medalist in the International Mathematics Olympiad.
