Kokui Adesokan

Kokui Adesokan is a Technical Project Manager in the Program Management Office at Bridgewater Associates, a premier asset management firm. As a certified scrum master, she partners with investment engineers, software developers, product managers and tech leads to plan and execute trading technology improvement projects.

Prior to joining Bridgewater, Kokui was an associate director at Pratt and Whitney, a jet engine manufacturer, where she led teams of engineers to design, analyze and industrialize hundreds of engine hardware for the Externals component on the revolutionary Geared TurboFan engines.

Kokui’s leadership and passion for the community has been recognized with the UMass Amherst College of Engineering Young Alumni award, the Professional Achievement in Industry Award at the Women of Color STEM Conference; a Trailblazer Spectrum Award at the Black Engineer of the Year Conference; a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Production (STEP) Emerging Leader Award; sponsored by The Manufacturing Institute. Kokui earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering degree from UMass Amherst and an M.B.A. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Kokui serves on the UMass Amherst College of Engineering Dean’s Advisory board. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with her husband and two daughters, exploring various cuisines, and traveling internationally.