Eugene
Flood
,
Jr.
Chair, Investment Committee
CREF Trustee since 2005
Eugene Flood, Jr., 52, has been President, Chief Executive Officer (since 2000) and a Director of Smith Breeden Associates, Inc. an investment advisor, since 1994. Prior to joining Smith Breeden as President and Chief Executive Officer in 2000, he was a Portfolio Manager at Morgan Stanley Asset Management. Dr. Flood serves on the Visiting Committee for the Economics Department and the Dean's Advisory Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, the Board of Visitors of the Fuqua School of Business of Duke University, Board of Visitors of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Board of Directors of the Society of Quantitative Analysts. In addition, Dr. Flood has worked as a consultant for a variety of private sector companies and government agencies. Dr. Flood has a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Flood has served as a CREF Trustee since 2005.