John Montgomery

John Montgomery Founder and CIO of Bridgeway bio image

President, CEO, Co-Chief Investment Officer, and Founder

John founded Bridgeway Capital Management in 1993 and is President, CEO, and Co-Chief Investment Officer. His responsibilities include development and execution of the firm’s strategy, oversight of all operations, portfolio management, research, risk oversight, and mentoring.

John holds a BS in Engineering and a BA in Philosophy from Swarthmore College and graduate degrees from MIT and Harvard Business School. He worked with computer modeling and statistical methods as a research engineer at MIT in the late 1970s. Later, as a student at Harvard, he investigated methods to apply modeling to portfolio management and began applying these methods to his own investments in 1985. John left the transportation industry in 1991 to perform full-time research on his investment models, study the mutual fund industry, and write a business plan for Bridgeway. John serves as the board chair for Bridgeway Foundation and Aegis America.