Ernie Rogers

Ernie Rogers is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Magnetar Capital, where he oversees all aspects of the firm’s operations and finances. He manages the fund accounting, business unit control, treasury, portfolio finance, operations, IT, legal, compliance, risk management, research, data analytics, human resources, and public relations teams. He is also a member of the Management, Investment, and Valuation Committees, and a non-voting member of the Executive Committee.

Ernie began his tenure at Magnetar on the fixed income team and previously served as COO of that business, where he was instrumental in building the firm’s fixed income strategy.

Before joining Magnetar in 2005, Ernie was a managing director and a portfolio manager for the Quantitative Strategies Fund at Black River Asset Management. In that role, he focused on all operations of the fund including execution, strategic planning, and strategy development and deployment.