Jaimi Goodfriend

Jaimi Goodfriend is the Head of Investment Professional Development, responsible for creating and implementing coaching and curriculum to our fundamental equities analyst population to build their skills and accelerate their career growth. She is also the Director of the Point72 Academy, Point72’s initiative to recruit and train new college graduates as fundamental equities investment professionals on an accelerated schedule.

Prior to joining Point72, Ms. Goodfriend was an adjunct lecturer at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and DePaul University in Chicago. In 2012, she developed, launched, and was named the Director of the University of Illinois’ Investment Banking Academy. Before teaching collegiately, Ms. Goodfriend was an equity research analyst in the hedge fund industry, most recently at Citadel Investment Group and Balyasny Asset Management. Before joining Balyasny, Ms. Goodfriend worked as an equity research analyst at First Analysis Corporation. She has served as a manager of absolute returns and fixed income at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and began her career in Mergers and Acquisitions at Bank of America.

Ms. Goodfriend received her BA in economics from University of Michigan and her MBA from the J. L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst.