Kenneth Weissman

Ken is senior vice president and head of Corporate Operations at First Eagle Investment Management. He is responsible for cross-departmental vendor initiatives, especially large strategic projects that require management of both external and internal resources. Ken has been affiliated with First Eagle and its predecessor buy- and sell-side firms for 17 years. As CIO for Natixis Bleichroeder, he led the convergence of cash and derivative equities technology, as well as the direction of a shared IT organization supporting First Eagle. Prior to 1999, Ken was involved in executive-level change-management initiatives. At Bankers Trust Alex.Brown, he was deployed in Baltimore to manage the integration of systems and the transition of application resources for equities technology. Ken's financial services advisory experience has been varied, both as CIO of G.X. Clarke & Co and as senior consultant with Deloitte & Touche. Ken received a BS in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.