About
Jim Prusko is a senior Portfolio Manager at Magnetar with roughly three decades of experience in fixed income markets. He is a member of the firm's Investment and Management Committees and a senior member of the Alternative Credit and Fixed Income team, where he has managed structured fixed income strategies spanning intellectual property, transportation, music royalties, solar energy, and recycling investments, and has helped develop the firm's technology and AI investing initiative. Before joining Magnetar in 2005 he was Head of Fixed Income at OTA Asset Management and previously spent eleven years at Putnam Investments, ultimately as a Managing Director and team leader of high-grade credit. He holds an MBA from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and MS and BS degrees in chemical engineering from MIT.
Invests in
AI & Machine Learning
Experience
- Magnetar CapitalCo-Head Structured Credit
- OTA Investment ManagementHead of Fixed Income2004 — 2005
- Putnam InvestmentsTeam Leader - HG Corporates1992 — 2003
- Solvay Advanced PolymersUnit Manager - Experimental Production1987 — 1990
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology1982 — 1987
Same school
Also attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology977
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Shared employers
Also worked at Magnetar Capital23
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Also worked at Solvay Advanced Polymers9
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Investments
Board seats
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