David McCormick, president of Westport’s Bridgewater Associates, was honored Wednesday night with the Quiet Professional Award by The Green Beret Foundation at a New York City event.
David McCormick: honored as Quiet Professional. Contributed photo
The award is given to a person with unwavering dedication within and outside the military and respected leadership of military personnel.
The Green Beret Foundation is an organization that provides direct and continuous support to the Green Beret Community and its families.
McCormick has close ties to the Green Berets, serving in the U.S. Army at Ft. Bragg, N.C. and as a veteran of the first Gulf War.
Before joining Bridgewater, he was U.S. Treasury under-secretary for international affairs in the Bush Administration and prior to that deputy national security advisor for international economic policy and under-secretary of commerce for export administration.
From 1999 to 2005, he was an entrepreneur, serving as CEO of Freemarkets and president of Ariba, two publicly traded software companies, and earlier in his career he was a consultant at McKinsey & Company.
He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and has a Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
