Erin Simpson

Erin heads Wilshire’s operations and risk management team. She is a member of the Wilshire Investment Committee and the Investment Oversight Committee, and chairs Wilshire’s Alternative Oversight and Alternative Risk Committees. She has over 16 years of industry experience in risk management and portfolio construction within the alternative asset industry.

Before joining Wilshire in 2013, Erin performed risk analysis and designed and developed risk and reporting systems for Merrill Lynch’s Hedge Fund Development and Management Group (“HFDMG”). She then became the executive vice president of Risk Fundamentals, a risk transparency software company spun-out of Merrill’s HFDMG. Previously, Erin was a risk analyst at Kenmar Global Investments.

Prior to entering the financial services industry, Erin spent three years with NASA specializing in space science and astronomical research at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Erin received a BS in astrophysics from Yale University and an MS in information and telecommunication systems from Johns Hopkins University.