Dean's Advisory Board

Todd  Pulvino                                       

Principal
CNH Partners, AQR Capital Mgmt.

Todd Pulvino is a co-founder and principal at CNH Partners, the merger arbitrage and convertible arbitrage affiliate of AQR Capital Management. In addition, Pulvino is a member of the finance faculty (currently on leave) at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where his research has focused on the risks and returns in event arbitrage. Pulvino worked as a consultant for Collins Associates and Grosvenor Capital Management where he evaluated event-driven hedge funds. He has also served on the finance faculty at Harvard Business School.

Pulvino’s research is published in top academic finance journals including the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics. He received the Smith-Breeden First Prize for the best paper (“Limited Arbitrage in Equity Markets”, co-authored with Mark Mitchell and Erik Stafford) published in the Journal of Finance in 2002 and he received the Smith-Breeden Distinguished Paper Award (“Do Asset Fire-Sales Exist? Empirical Evidence from Commercial Aircraft Transactions”) from the Journal of Finance in 1998.

Prior to completing his doctoral work at Harvard, Pulvino worked as a design engineer in the aerospace industry.