Eugene Flood Jr. has been a non-executive director of Janus Henderson since May 2017. Mr. Flood was a non-executive director of Janus Capital Group from January 2014 to May 2017 and is currently the Chair of the Risk Committee and a member of the Human Capital and Compensation Committee.
Mr. Flood was Executive Vice President of TIAA-CREF from 2011 until his retirement in 2012, serving on the CREF Board of Trustees and the TIAA-CREF Mutual Fund Board of Trustees for seven years, including as Chair of the Investment Committee. Prior to joining TIAA-CREF in 2011, he spent 12 years with Smith Breeden Associates, a North Carolina-based fixed income asset manager, as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Flood held a range of trading and investment positions with Morgan Stanley from 1987 to 1999 and was an Assistant Professor of Finance at Stanford Business School from 1982 to 1987. Mr. Flood has served as Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill since 2014, as a director of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement since 2015, and was appointed to the board of First Citizens BancShares and its First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company subsidiary in 2023 where he serves as a member of BancShares’ Risk Committee and First-Citizens’ Trust Committee. Mr. Flood has a BA in economics from Harvard University and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.