Leadership Team

George D. Mussalli, CFA

Global Chief Investment Officer

Mr. Mussalli is PanAgora’s Global Chief Investment Officer. He is responsible for the oversight of the firm’s Equity and Multi Asset investment teams, including research, portfolio management, portfolio construction, and trading. He is also a member of the firm’s Investment, Operating, Risk, and Sustainability Committees, as well as the Board of Directors.

As Global Chief Investment Officer, Mr. Mussalli directs innovative research used in the development of models implemented in PanAgora’s investment strategies. As a leader in the field, he was appointed to the Editorial Boards of The Journal of Financial Data Science and The Journal of Impact and ESG Investing and is also a member of the MIT Sloan Finance Group Advisory Board.

Before becoming Global CIO, Mr. Mussalli was Chief Investment Officer of Equity Investments, overseeing PanAgora’s Dynamic and Stock Selector Equity strategies. Prior to this role, he led the firm’s Stock Selector strategies. His work focused on combining fundamental insights with sophisticated quantitative techniques to develop proprietary models designed to analyze companies across many dimensions. In addition to overseeing the management of the firm’s Stock Selector strategies, he contributed significantly to the proprietary pool of Equity research leveraged across the entire firm during his tenure.

Before joining PanAgora, he was a Portfolio Manager on the Putnam Investments Structured Equity team, where he was responsible for Structured Equity portfolios. He contributed to quantitative research and analysis that supported all Equity strategies, including International and Global strategies.

Prior to joining Putnam, Mr. Mussalli worked as a Senior Investment Analyst at John Hancock Funds.