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Eric Uchida Henderson, CFA and CFP®
Eric Uchida Henderson, CFA and CFP®
Founder and Chief Investment Officer (CIO)
Eric has over 30 years of investing experience, both in Asia and in the United States. Eric started his career in the early 1990s as an equity analyst in Hong Kong and South East Asia with international securities firms Nomura Securities and ING Barings. His astute insights and thoughtful commentary landed him appearances on CNBC, The Asia Wall Street Journal, and Fortune magazine.
Eric returned to Boston in the late 1990s to work as a global equities analyst and manage portfolios at Columbia Management (now Columbia Threadneedle), Independence Investments (then a John Hancock subsidiary) and RBS Citizens Private Bank. In 2012, he harvested his entrepreneurial ambitions to launch East Horizon Investments to deliver financial planning and investment management to individuals, couples and families and help guide clients towards more confident and comfortable financial lives.
Eric received his BSc and MSc degrees in Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER®. Eric is a frequent speaker on investments and global financial markets at various events, including investment panels and topics at the MIT Asia Business Conference, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and with international delegates under the US State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program.
Eric’s non-for-profit Board of Director participation includes the Cambridge-Ellis School, World Boston, and the Cambridge Community Foundation. He is also a trustee for several high net-worth individuals and family trusts. Eric can often be found in the dynamic Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), and regularly appears at The Venture Café.
Gita R. Rao, Ph.D
Gita R. Rao, Ph.D
Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Management
Gita R. Rao is a Managing Director and Head of Portfolio Management for East Horizon Investments, and brings over two decades of experience in investing, asset allocation, risk management, and client service. Dr. Rao also holds a faculty position as a Senior Lecturer in Finance, and Associate Faculty Director of the Master of Finance program at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Dr. Rao’s previous roles include: portfolio manager at MFS Investment Management, managing global long-short portfolios and co-director of quantitative equity research; associate partner and director of quantitative equity research at Wellington Management Company, managing over $4 billion in global equity portfolios on a team responsible for $15 billion in client assets; senior vice president at Liberty Financial Companies, managing over $1 billion in global and international equity/balanced mutual funds and serving on the firm’s investment policy committee; senior research analyst at Fidelity Management & Research Company and vice president at Kidder, Peabody & Co. in New York.
She has served as a president of the Society of Quantitative Analysts, on the editorial board of the Financial Analysts Journal, on the board of trustees of the Research Foundation of the CFA Institute, and as Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She currently sits on the board of the Boston chapter of Pratham, an Indian educational NGO.
Dr. Rao holds a Ph.D. in Finance and Accounting from the University of Rochester, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a BA in Economics from Delhi University’s St. Stephen’s College in India. In her spare time, she enjoys travel, practicing yoga and organic gardening.