Todd C. Pulvino

Todd Pulvino is a Principal and co-founder of AQR Arbitrage, the arbitrage research affiliate of AQR Capital Management that trades merger arbitrage, convertible arbitrage and other strategies related to corporate events. Prior to co-founding AQR Arbitrage in 2001, Todd was a tenured Associate Professor of Finance at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where his research focused on the risks and returns in event arbitrage. Earlier, he was a consultant at two fund-of-fund firms, Collins Associates and Grosvenor Capital Management, and a visiting professor at Harvard Business School. He began his career as an aerospace engineer. He has published in finance journals, winning two Smith Breeden awards for his research, and teaches at the Kellogg School. Todd earned a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.S. in mechanical engineering at the California Institute of Technology, and an A.M. and a Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard University.