Harold S. Bradley is Chief Investment Officer (CIO) for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Bradley leads a team that oversees a $1.7 billion globally diversified, multi-asset class portfolio. Bradley arrived at the Foundation after 19 years with American Century Investments, a Kansas City-based mutual fund company. He served there in a number of senior investment capacities, including CIO of U.S. small and mid-cap growth equities, president of American Century Ventures, and Head of Global Trading. He also led a quantitative team that employed evolutionary programming techniques and behavioral finance concepts to develop and launch actively managed strategies. Bradley has a long advocacy record for investor-friendly policy and regulatory reforms in areas such as soft dollars, exchange competition, electronic trading systems, and decimalization. Bradley began his career as the marketing officer for the Kansas City Board of Trade where he helped launch the world’s first stock index futures contract. He also traded proprietarily as a member of the Kansas City Board of Trade in a wide range of financial and agricultural futures and options.
Bradley currently serves on the NYSE Pension Managers Advisory Committee and is a CFA Institute Retained Speaker. He previously served as a member of the Investment Company Institute Task Force on Market Structure and was appointed by SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt to the Federal Advisory Committee on Market Data. He also served on the Institutional Traders Advisory Committee of the NYSE, the NASDAQ Quality of Markets Committee, and on the executive committee overseeing the development of the Financial Information Exchange (FIX) protocol. His public comment letters in response to SEC Concept Releases and his Congressional testimony helped influence industry rule-making. Bradley graduated summa cum laude from Marquette University, and has completed the Kennedy School program on Investment Decisions and Behavioral Finance at Harvard University.