Erkko Etula

Erkko Etula is the CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Brooklyn, an A.I.-powered managed accounts platform for financial advisors and asset managers, acquired by Nuveen in June 2025. He oversees Nuveen’s tax-advantaged investment solutions from equity and multi-asset direct indexing to tax-advantaged long/short strategies.

Prior to co-founding Brooklyn Investment Group LLC and its parent company Brooklyn Artificial Intelligence Inc in 2021, Erkko was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, where he gained over a decade of investment experience creating and managing systematic strategies for Goldman Sachs wealth management clients. Erkko began his career as an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York at the onset of the Great Financial Crisis and has also served as an Adjunct Professor at NYU Stern School of Business.

Erkko earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Harvard University where he was a Presidential Scholar. He also holds a B.S. Phi Beta Kappa from MIT. Erkko has published in top finance journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Portfolio Management. He is the winner of the 2015 Amundi Smith Breeden Prize for outstanding capital markets research and the 2016 Engle Prize in financial econometrics.