Fast Facts
As Co-Chief Operating Officer & Head of Business Development, Tom Sherwood is responsible for leading Magnetar’s business development, capital formation, and new strategy execution. Tom and his team work together to serve the needs of Magnetar’s institutional and wealth management investors globally, providing alternative investment solutions and dedicated client service. In addition to these responsibilities, he oversees the firm’s Risk Management, Market Executions, and Liquid Strategies Operations. Since joining Magnetar in 2013, Tom has played a central role in launching and scaling investment initiatives and managing processes that support those efforts.
Tom joined Magnetar from Barclays Capital, where he was a Managing Director in Fixed Income Sales. He was responsible for managing relationships across a range of institutional clients with a focus on credit markets, derivatives and structured products. He joined Barclays in 2008 as part of the acquisition of Lehman Brothers, where he worked in the same capacity beginning in 2004. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Tom spent 9 years at Merrill Lynch in both sales and trading roles across a number of fixed income markets including structured credit, interest rate, and municipal derivatives.
Tom earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Economy with honors from Princeton University and a Master of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Education
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Master of Business Administration
Princeton University
Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Political Economy