Gordon Bennett, CFA, CFP®, has worked in the financial markets for nearly 40 years. He began his career at Citibank as a government bond trader on the positioning and arbitrage desk. He next moved into fixed-income portfolio management at BEA Associates. Subsequently, he consulted with a New York hedge fund and eventually became a founding partner at Lamarck, Inc., a firm specializing in developing fault-tolerant algorithmic software. In the early 2000s, he established the still extant Bennett Financial Advisors, serving a select group of clients. In the late aughts, he rejoined Todd Rice—with whom he had worked at BEA Associates and Lamarck—and founded AIM to focus on developing investment products based on machine learning.

Gordon is a graduate of Harvard College with a degree in East Asian languages and civilization. He has a master’s in economics from New York University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Certified Financial Planner. He is the president of Congregation Kehillath Israel in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he has served on the board for 10 years.