Eddie Fishman is a managing director of D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. and a member of the Executive Committee of D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. and D. E. Shaw & Co., L.L.C., in which capacity he jointly supervises the D. E. Shaw group’s worldwide businesses. Mr. Fishman is also a member of the Executive Committee of D. E. Shaw Investment Management, L.L.C. (“DESIM”), which manages benchmark-relative equity and multi-asset class investment strategies. He serves as the D. E. Shaw group’s Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) and has oversight responsibility for several of the firm’s functions—including back-office financial operations, human capital, and legal and compliance—as well as for the operations of the firm’s India offices. Mr. Fishman also jointly oversees the firm’s global trading and information technology platforms. Prior to his appointment as COO in 2010, he was a senior member of the D. E. Shaw group’s Investor Relations department. Before that, Mr. Fishman had management responsibility for a multi-manager portfolio the firm once advised and shared responsibility for the operations of D. E. Shaw Research, LLC, which focuses on the early-stage development of technology-oriented ventures. Prior to joining the D. E. Shaw group in 1995, he served as an equity research analyst at the Spanish investment firm A.B. Asesores. Mr. Fishman graduated with honors from Princeton University with a degree in comparative literature. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.