Point72 LP, a Stamford-based asset management firm, has named two former Goldman Sachs professionals to its executive leadership.
Gavin O”™Connor was named group chief operating officer and chief financial officer. O”™Connor was previously the COO at Goldman Sachs”™ Investment Management Division and co-chairman of the firm”™s New Activity Committee. O”™Connor, who was with Goldman Sachs for 21 years, was named a managing director at the company in 2001 and a partner in 2006.
Point72 also named Mark Brubaker as chief technology officer. Brubaker was previously Millennium Partners”™ global head of equity technology and shared services. He began his career as a software engineer before joining Goldman Sachs in 1996 to lead the company”™s core position management system that supported the cash, program trading and arbitrage groups. Later in his career, he was a managing director at UBS and posted to London, where he led the company”™s EMEA regional technology platforms.
