Jasjeet Sekhon, a senior executive responsible for establishing Bridgewater Associates' AI research capabilities, will take on the role of chief strategy officer at Google-owned DeepMind, DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis said in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday.
According to Hassabis' post, Sekhon will depart his current roles at Bridgewater - where he has been the firm's chief scientist and head of AI - and will join Bridgewater's board of directors after the transition.
Sekhon joined Bridgewater in 2018 and was instrumental in creating the firm's AI research and investment unit, AIA Labs. The unit is led by Bridgewater's Co-Chief Investment Officer Greg Jensen. The firm has emphasized that Sekhon did not hold investing responsibilities while at Bridgewater.
Before his tenure at Bridgewater, Sekhon held academic appointments at multiple U.S. universities, including Harvard, the University of California, Berkeley, and most recently Yale, the announcement noted.
DeepMind has introduced several AI products over the past year, including an upgraded chatbot and a new AI model named Gemini, as well as an AI photo editor called Nano Banana. Those product developments are part of a broader push that Alphabet-owned Google has used to close the competitive gap with other AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
Google's progress in artificial intelligence has coincided with a significant appreciation in the company's stock, which the announcement noted has almost doubled in value over the past year.
The move by Sekhon comes against a backdrop of notable activity at Bridgewater. Led by CEO Nir Bar Dea, the hedge fund reported its largest profit in its roughly 50-year history in 2025, with its flagship Pure Alpha fund delivering a 34% return. The firm recently appointed veteran executive Bob Prince, a four-decade firm veteran and one of its CIOs, as chair of its board of directors.
Bridgewater also recently projected that technology companies led by Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft will together invest about $650 billion this year to expand AI-related infrastructure. The firm manages a range of macro-oriented funds and reported about $92 billion in assets under management at the end of September. Its portfolio of funds includes Pure Alpha, All Weather, Asia Total Return, China Total Return and the AIA Macro fund.
The announcement that Sekhon will move to DeepMind and serve on Bridgewater's board frames a period of organizational change for both the hedge fund and the AI unit at Google. The LinkedIn announcement by Hassabis provided the primary public detail of the personnel change.
Summary
Jasjeet Sekhon is leaving his roles as chief scientist and head of AI at Bridgewater to become chief strategy officer at DeepMind, while taking a board seat at Bridgewater. The personnel change was announced by DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis on LinkedIn. The move coincides with recent product launches by DeepMind and strong financial results at Bridgewater.