Kirsten Pickens

Managing Director, Co-Head of U.S. Distribution

Kirsten Pickens

Managing Director, Co-Head of U.S. Distribution

Kirsten Pickens serves as Managing Director and Co-Head of U.S. Distribution for FS Investments and is a member of the firm’s
Executive Committee.

Before joining FS Investments, Ms. Pickens was a Partner and Head of Distribution at Chiron Investment Management, the global multi-asset firm that she helped launch in 2015, and which was acquired by FS Investments in 2020. Prior to launching Chiron, she was Senior Vice President, Head of National Accounts and DCIO Sales for Ivy Investment Management, a firm she also helped launch to third party distribution channels in 2003. In 2010, she was named one of Institutional Investor magazine’s “Rising Stars of Mutual Funds.” Ms. Pickens also worked for ING Funds and Seligman Investments. She began her financial services career as a Retirement Specialist at Vanguard.

She serves on the board of the Expect Miracles Foundation, Invest in Others, NICSA, and the FUSE National Accounts Advisory Board. She also serves on NICSA’s Executive Committee as the nominating Committee Chair, as well as on NICSA’s Distribution and Product Committee. She is a member of the Sales Force Marketing Committee of the Investment Company Institute, a member of the Money Management Institute, and an active member of the FS Inclusion Council and FS Women’s Network. Ms. Pickens holds Series 6, 7, 24 and 63 FINRA securities licenses. She received a BA from Arizona State University where she majored in Justice Studies with a Pre-Law minor.

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