David G. Kabiller

David Kabiller is Co-Founder and the Head of Business Development at AQR, overseeing client relationships, business development and strategic initiatives. In this role, he has helped foster AQR’s tradition of innovation by initiating AQR’s international expansion into Europe and Asia and spearheading its introduction of mutual funds. In addition to these corporate milestones, David is dedicated to investor education and fostering young research talent. To that end, he was instrumental in creating the “AQR University” symposia series for financial advisors and the Master Class program for institutional investors.

David has co-authored papers on topics including derivatives, enhanced indexation, securities lending, insurance-linked securities and hedge funds. He is the co-author of “Buffett’s Alpha” which received the 2018 Graham and Dodd Award from the Financial Analysts Journal for the year’s best paper. He is a member of Northwestern University’s Board of Trustees and chairman of the Executive Council of the university’s International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN). At Northwestern, David founded a series of prizes and awards in the field of Nanoscience and Nanomedicine, including The Kabiller Prize, The Kabiller Young Investigator Award, and The Kabiller Rising Star Award, and established NU for Life, a program dedicated to the professional development of Northwestern student-athletes. In 2022, at Stanford University, David helped establish The Longevity Transitions Salon. This salon brings together thought leaders, academics, and policymakers to engage in a series of discussions about transitions in the second half of life aimed at sparking ideas about supportive infrastructures and new social norms. The goal is to ensure individuals experience a sense of belonging, purpose, and worth throughout their century-long lives. David has also served on the Board of Trustees for the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Prior to AQR, David was a vice president at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he established and maintained relationships with the chief investment officers of many of the largest pension and endowment funds in North America. He earned a B.A. in economics from Northwestern University, where he received an athletic scholarship to play tennis and was named to the Big Ten’s Academic All-Conference team, and an M.B.A. from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. He is a CFA charterholder.