Alexis Halaby is a managing director and member of the Executive Committee at the D. E. Shaw group, a global investment and technology development firm with more than $60 billion in investment capital. As a member of the six-person Executive Committee that leads the firm, she jointly supervises the D. E. Shaw group’s worldwide businesses. Ms. Halaby oversees D. E. Shaw Investment Management, L.L.C. (“DESIM”), which manages systematic, benchmark-relative equity strategies and multi-asset class investment strategies, as well as the firm’s Investor Relations and External Communications departments. She previously served as a rotating member of the firm’s Risk Committee. Ms. Halaby spent more than four years as a member of the D. E. Shaw group’s fixed income trading unit, where she traded G10 sovereign debt and interest rate derivatives and conducted investment research. She joined the firm in 2003 after receiving her B.S. in biological sciences from Stanford University.