Warren Pennington is a principal and global head of Vanguard’s Office of Investment Management Fintech Strategies. The Office of IMFS's mission is to actively explore new technologies in ways that could dramatically improve Vanguard’s investment performance, make global capital markets work better for investors, and serve as a catalyst for innovation within the Investment Management Group at Vanguard.

IMG manages approximately $8 trillion in assets globally across passive and active strategies in the fixed-income, equities, currencies, and derivatives markets.

Before joining Vanguard in 2012, Mr. Pennington worked for the Macquarie Group in various senior leadership roles in its Investment Management division. Prior to working for Macquarie, he was division controller and ran operations in the consumer lending and corporate trust businesses at Wells Fargo Bank.

Mr. Pennington earned a B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He earned his MBA from Wharton, and is a certified public accountant. He serves on several advisory boards, including Purestream Technologies, the Ben Franklin Fintech Accelerator program in Philadelphia, and Stanford Advanced Financial Technologies Lab.