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2023 Jerome Fisher M&T Distinguished Alumni

Radhika Gupta, M&T’05

Radhika Gupta is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at Edelweiss Asset Management Limited, one of India’s fastest-growing asset management companies.

Under Radhika’s leadership, Edelweiss AMC has grown from 6,000 crores ($750 million) to 98,000 crores ($12 billion) in assets under management in five years and is recognized as a disruptive and customer-obsessed mutual fund company. Prior to this stint, Radhika was an entrepreneur, who set up Forefront Capital Management, India’s first domestic hedge fund, which was acquired by Edelweiss Financial Services in 2014. Radhika began her career in 2005 at McKinsey & Company as a Business Analyst and later as Portfolio Manager on the global asset allocation team at AQR Capital Management.

Born in Pakistan and schooled across four different continents, Radhika is today hailed as one of the most powerful Indian women in the country’s financial ecosystem. In addition to her role in the global finance industry, she uses the power of storytelling to help inspire young girls to join the workforce. She is a prominent public speaker, known particularly for her breakout talk, “The Girl with a Broken Neck”, and also the acclaimed author of the recently published Limitless:  The Power of Unlocking Your True Potential. In 2022, she was selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders.

Radhika is a graduate of the Penn M&T Program. She received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Computer Science from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics (Concentrations in Finance and Management) from Wharton in 2005.

Garrett Reisman, M&T’90

A NASA veteran who flew on all three Space Shuttles, Garrett Reisman was selected by NASA as a mission specialist astronaut in 1998. His first mission in 2008 was aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which dropped him off for a 95-day stay aboard the International Space Station after which he returned to Earth aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. His second mission in 2010 was aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis. During these missions, Garrett performed 3 spacewalks, operated the Space Station Robot Arm, and was a flight engineer aboard the Space Shuttle. Not only was he an astronaut, but Garrett was also an aquanaut serving as a crew member on NEEMO V, living on the bottom of the sea in the Aquarius deep underwater habitat for 2 weeks.

After leaving NASA in early 2011, he joined Elon Musk at SpaceX where he served in multiple capacities most recently as the Director of Space Operations. Garrett stepped down from his full-time position at SpaceX in May of 2018 and in June 2018 he became a Professor of Astronautical Engineering at the Viterbi School at USC.  He also continues to support SpaceX as a Senior Advisor.

Garrett graduated magna cum laude from the M&T Program in 1991 with a BS in economics from the Wharton School of Business and a BS in engineering, mechanical engineering, and applied mechanics from the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He received a Master of Science in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.