Assistant Treasurer/Director of Asset Management

Dominion Energy, Inc.

Liza Scott joined Dominion Energy, Inc. in January 2020 as the Director of Asset Management/Assistant Treasurer where she oversees over $20 billion of pension and other assets. Prior to joining Dominion, she spent 11 years at Spider Management Company, the investment office of the University of Richmond and outsourced investment office for over 25 other endowments and foundations. Before Spider Management, she was an Associate at J.P. Morgan Investment Management in New York. Prior to attending business school, Liza was a high school teacher at a New York City public school through the New York Teaching Fellows program. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in foreign affairs and Spanish from the University of Virginia and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University. Liza serves on the Virginia College Savings Plan Investment Advisory Committee, the University of Virginia Foundation Board of Directors and the MCV Foundation Board of Trustees.

Chief Investment Officer

The College of William and Mary Foundation

Brian joined The College of William and Mary Foundation in 2005 to serve as its first Chief Investment Officer overseeing all of the investment management functions for the endowment including asset allocation and manager selection and review. Chartered in 1693, by King William III and Queen Mary II of England, The College of William and Mary is the second oldest college in America. Prior to joining William and Mary, Brian was the first Director of Alternative Investments for the Indiana University Foundation in Bloomington, Indiana, where he launched their Alternative Investment Program, including allocations to hedge funds, venture capital, private equity, and timberland. Prior to joining the I.U. Foundation, Brian was a Principal and Portfolio Manager at Harris Investment Management in Chicago. In 2011, Brian received the Institutional Investor Small Endowment of the Year Award. Brian received his B.S. and M.B.A. from Bowling Green State University.

Chief of Investments

National Gallery of Art

Christine Zapotoczky Kelleher is chief of investments at the National Gallery of Art. Previously, Christine served as senior investment officer for Georgetown University. She assisted with the founding of Georgetown’s Investment Office in 2004 and served as acting chief investment officer in 2011. After Georgetown, Christine led investment strategy, sourcing, and evaluation for Avec Capital. Earlier in her career, she served on the executive team of the Central European University, founded by George Soros, in Budapest, Hungary. She received a BA in Russian and international relations from Bucknell University and holds MAs in Russian and East European studies and in Central European history from Georgetown University. Christine is a member of the finance committee of the YWCA National Capital Area, an executive officer for the Bucknell University Alumni Association Board of Directors, a board member of the NHS Scholarship Fund, and an advisor to the Kayo Conference Series. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband and son.

Partner; US Segment Leader for Family Offices & Senior Investment Consultant

Pavilion, a Mercer Practice

Beth is a Senior Investment Consultant at Pavilion, a Mercer Practice. She currently services 6 endowment, foundation and family office clients with over $9 billion in aggregate assets under advisement. For these clients, Beth focuses on projects relating to asset allocation, investment manager selection, performance evaluation, and fund operations and governance.

Beth’s prior professional experience includes work as an Investment Director for Vanderbilt University’s endowment, where she was responsible for investments across traditional equities and bonds, marketable alternatives, oil and gas and private equity. She started her investment career as an Investment Analyst at Duke Management Company, managing investment projects across all asset classes for Duke University’s endowment office.

Beth attended the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Graduate School where she completed coursework in Economics. She holds a BA in Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, and German from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Beth has also earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designations. She is a member of the CFA Institute and a past board member of the CFA Society of St. Louis and the Nashville Society of Financial Analysts.

Throughout her career, Beth has remained active in her community, sitting on several not-for-profit boards of directors, previously serving as the Investment Committee Chair and then Chair of the Board for the Missouri Foundation for Health, a $1 billion healthcare foundation in St. Louis. In 2008, she received the Foundation and Endowment Money Management’s Non-Profit Consultant of the Year Award.

Chief Investment Officer

Makena Capital Management

Larry Kochard is the Chief Investment Officer at Makena Capital Management and a member of Makena’s Executive Committee. He leads Makena’s Investment Committee and is also a Management Committee member. Larry was previously the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company (UVIMCO) for eight years. As CEO, Larry provided leadership for all aspects of UVIMCO’s operations and served as UVIMCO’s primary representative to the university, related foundations, and the public. As CIO, Larry was responsible for the investment management of UVIMCO’s Long Term Pool, overseeing the asset allocation, portfolio management, risk management and manager selection activities of the investment staff. Prior to joining UVIMCO, Larry served as CIO at Georgetown University. From 2001 to 2004, he was Managing Director of Equity and Hedge Fund Investments for the Virginia Retirement System. From 1997 to 2004, he taught in the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, first as an adjunct and later as a full-time assistant professor. He spent the early part of his career in debt capital markets at Goldman Sachs and corporate finance at Fannie Mae and DuPont. Larry received his B.A. in Economics from the College of William & Mary, an M.B.A. degree in Finance and Accounting from the University of Rochester, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia. He is a CFA Charterholder. He is on the board of directors of Janus Henderson Group, Inc. and Virginia Environmental Endowment, and serves as Chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee of the Virginia Retirement System. Larry was the 2015 winner of the Rodney H. Adams Award for Endowment Management from the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), which recognizes outstanding contributions to university endowment and investment management. Larry is a longtime moderator of the premier endowment and foundation industry conference, NMS, and is the author of several industry publications, including Foundation and Endowment Investing: Philosophies and Strategies of Top Investors and Institutions. More recently, Larry wrote the foreword of and was profiled in Inside the World’s Top Institutional Offices: Conversations With 80 Institutional Investors.

Chief Investment Officer

Ironsides Asset Advisors

Mark E. Roberts, CFA serves as the Chief Investment Officer for Ironsides Asset Advisors, LLC, as well as a Managing Director for the Tuscarora Company (a family office). Immediately preceding that, Mr. Roberts was the Director of Global Equities and Hedged Strategies for the North Carolina Retirement Systems where he and his team were responsible for the management of the $33 billion Global Equity and Hedge Fund portfolios for the State of North Carolina. Additionally, Mr. Roberts has served as Chief Investment Officer for families and provided consulting services for endowments and foundations in both asset allocation, manager due diligence and portfolio construction. Earlier in his career, Mr. Roberts served as Director of Risk Management for Centura Bank and had asset – liability management responsibilities. Mr. Roberts received his Master of Science degree in finance from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the Calloway School of Business at Wake Forest University. Mr. Roberts serves on the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine Philanthropic Advisory Board. Mr. Roberts is the past Chairman of the Board for the NC State Investment Fund and still serves on the fund’s board. He is a member of the North Carolina Society of Financial Analysts and the American Finance Association. Mr. Roberts has served on multiple non-profit boards.

Senior Investment Officer

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Vanita W. Gaonkar is a Senior Investment Officer with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, focused on Public Investments. Prior to joining the Foundation, Vanita was the Director of Research at Ehrenkranz Partners, L.P., where she was responsible for investments across asset classes, including fixed income, equities, hedge funds, private equity and real assets. Before joining Ehrenkranz Partners, L.P. she served as a Director in Alternative Investments at Credit Suisse, where she oversaw investments in long/short equity, event driven credit and emerging markets. Prior to Credit Suisse she worked as an analyst at The Blackstone Group and J.P. Morgan Chase. Ms. Gaonkar earned her B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.

CEO/CIO

University of Virginia Investment Management Company (UVIMCO)

Robert W. Durden, CFA, is the Chief Executive Officer/Chief Investment Officer of UVIMCO.

As CEO, Robert provides leadership for all aspects of UVIMCO’s operations and serves as UVIMCO’s primary representative to the University, related foundations, and the public. As CIO, Robert is responsible for the investment management of UVIMCO’s Long Term Pool, overseeing the asset allocation, portfolio management, risk management, and manager selection activities of the investment staff.

Prior to joining UVIMCO, Robert served as Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, where he oversaw the hospital’s Foundation and other investment assets, totaling approximately $3 billion. Robert was previously the Managing Director of Private Investments at Morgan Creek Capital Management, and directed $4.5 billion of private investments across private equity, energy and natural resources, and real estate. He has also worked with Legg Mason/Western Asset Management, Ritchie Capital Management, and Merrill Lynch’s Middle Market M&A group.

Robert received a B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Princeton University, and an M.B.A. in finance and entrepreneurship, with honors, from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Robert is a CFA charterholder.

CEO/CIO

UVIMCO

Robert W. Durden, CFA, is the Chief Executive Officer/Chief Investment Officer of UVIMCO.

As CEO, Robert provides leadership for all aspects of UVIMCO’s operations and serves as UVIMCO’s primary representative to the University, related foundations, and the public. As CIO, Robert is responsible for the investment management of UVIMCO’s Long Term Pool, overseeing the asset allocation, portfolio management, risk management, and manager selection activities of the investment staff.

Prior to joining UVIMCO, Robert served as Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, where he oversaw the hospital’s Foundation and other investment assets, totaling approximately $3 billion. Robert was previously the Managing Director of Private Investments at Morgan Creek Capital Management, and directed $4.5 billion of private investments across private equity, energy and natural resources, and real estate. He has also worked with Legg Mason/Western Asset Management, Ritchie Capital Management, and Merrill Lynch’s Middle Market M&A group.

Robert received a B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Princeton University, and an M.B.A. in finance and entrepreneurship, with honors, from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Robert is a CFA charterholder.

CEO & Chief Investment Officer

American Institutes for Research

Don joined the American Institutes for Research in November 2014 in the role of chief investment officer. Prior to joining AIR, he was the chief investment officer for The George Washington University where he was responsible for management of the university’s $1.5 billion endowment for eleven and a half years. In 2000, Don formed the University of Toronto Asset Management Corporation which managed the university’s endowment, defined benefit plan and operating funds. He began his investment career with the University of Virginia where he served as investment analyst, senior investment officer, assistant director of investments and director. Don earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Virginia Tech, a Master of Business Administration from James Madison University and a Master of International Policy and Practice from The George Washington University. He is a CFA charter holder and a member of the Washington CFA Society. Don was formerly a member of the investment advisory committee of the Virginia Retirement System.

Chief Investment Officer

Fairfax County Police Officers Retirement System

Ms. Molnar joined Fairfax County Retirement Systems in 2013 and currently serves as Chief Investment Officer of the Fairfax County Police Officers Retirement System, a $1.5 billion plan. Her responsibilities include all aspects of portfolio management and oversight, including strategic and tactical asset and risk allocation, selection and supervision of external investment managers and risk management. From 2001 until 2012, Ms. Molnar was Vice President, Senior Research Analyst at AIG Investments’ Hedge Fund Solutions Group – both in London and New York. At AIG Investments, Ms. Molnar was responsible for due diligence procedures and research including: sourcing new managers, monitoring current hedge funds, analyzing portfolio risk and performance, making new investment recommendations to an investment committee as well as hedge fund asset allocation recommendations for portfolio construction. She was additionally responsible for portfolio reviews and overall asset allocation recommendations for external client portfolios. Previously, she was Vice President, Market Research Analyst at Citigroup Investments’ Alternative Investment Strategies group. Prior investment management experience includes positions at Paribas Asset Management as well as Trevor Stewart Burton & Jacobsen. Additionally, Ms. Molnar spent one year in Warsaw, Poland launching the first retail mutual funds available to the Polish market as well as two years in Frankfurt, Germany as an intern with J.P. Morgan. Ms. Molnar received a B.S. in Business Administration/Finance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a CFA charterholder.

Chief Investment Officer

Hackensack Meridian Health

Ms. Snider joined Hackensack Meridian Health in 2020 as their first CIO with the mandate to build an investment office that will support the organization’s mission of transforming healthcare and being viewed as a leader of positive change. The HMH investment office manages both the endowment and pension assets for the hospital system. Prior to joining HMH, Donna was a Managing Director at The Kresge Foundation since 2009 where she had responsibility for evaluating investment opportunities across all asset classes as well as oversight for the internal trading activity. Prior to joining Kresge, Donna was a director in the Global Markets and Investment Banking division of Merrill Lynch in New York where she covered institutional investors for structured credit, rates and equity products, as well as corporate issuers for their balance sheet hedging activity. Prior to Wall Street, Donna was a pension actuary with Towers Perrin (now Willis Towers Watson) in Chicago. Donna earned her MBA with concentrations in accounting and analytical finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business; she holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Notre Dame, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa; professional designations include CFA charter holder and an Associate of the Society of Actuaries.

CEO & Chief Investment Officer / Managing Partner

Morgan Creek Capital Management / Morgan Creek Digital Assets

Mark Yusko is the Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Creek Capital Management. He is also the Managing Partner of Morgan Creek Digital Assets. Morgan Creek Capital Management was founded in 2004 and currently manages close to $2 billion in discretionary and non-discretionary assets. Prior to founding Morgan Creek, Mr. Yusko was CIO and Founder of UNC Management Company (UNCMC), the Endowment investment office for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before that, he was Senior Investment Director for the University of Notre Dame Investment Office.

Mr. Yusko has been at the forefront of institutional investing throughout his career. An early investor in alternative asset classes at Notre Dame, he brought the Endowment Model of investing to UNC, which contributed to significant performance gains for the Endowment. The Endowment Model is the cornerstone philosophy of Morgan Creek, as is the mandate to Invest in Innovation. Mr. Yusko is again at the forefront of investing through Morgan Creek Digital Assets, which was formed in 2018. Morgan Creek Digital is an early stage investor in blockchain technology, digital currency and digital assets through the firm’s Venture Capital and Digital Asset Index Fund.

Mr. Yusko received a BA with Honors from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA in Accounting and Finance from the University of Chicago.

General Partner

TrueBridge Capital

Mr. Williams was a vice president of UNC Management Company from 2001 to 2007. At UNC Management Company, Mr. Williams was part of the senior team that managed the $2.1 billion endowment for UNC-Chapel Hill and affiliates. Mr. Williams had primary responsibility for UNC’s portfolio of investments in venture capital, leveraged buyouts, restructurings, real estate, oil and gas, and distressed debt. As part of his responsibilities, Mr. Williams oversaw a venture capital portfolio of approximately $250 million in commitments to 27 managers. In this role Mr. Williams also served on the advisory boards of several private capital partnerships. Mr. Williams is a frequent speaker at global conferences on private equity investing and a guest lecturer on portfolio management theory and private equity investing at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Prior to his career at UNC Management Company, Mr. Williams spent over five years in the private equity industry as a successful venture-backed entrepreneur and an entrepreneur-in-residence at Commonwealth Capital Ventures in Boston. Mr. Williams was previously a manager with the General Electric Capital Company and the General Electric Corporate Audit Staff. Mr. Williams received his MBA from Harvard University after graduating cum laude with a BA in Economics from UNC-Chapel Hill.

In October 2012 Mr. Williams was named an honorary Kauffman Fellow by the Center for Venture Education, in appreciation of TrueBridge’s contribution and commitment to the Kauffman Fellows Program. Mr. Williams currently serves on the UNC Board of Visitors.

President & CEO

UNC Management Company

Jonathon King, President & CEO of UNC Management Company, joined the Company in January 2005. In this role Mr. King is also the Chief Investment Officer of the UNC Investment Fund. Prior to joining UNC Management Co., Mr. King was the Associate Vice President and Director of Investments for Dartmouth College where he worked for sixteen years. Previously, Mr. King was an Investment Officer at New England Mutual Life Insurance Company in Boston, MA and a Senior Accountant at Price Waterhouse & Co. in Hartford, CT. Mr. King graduated cum laude from Middlebury College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Studies. Mr. King also graduated with an MBA degree from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Director of Investments

NC State University

Libby George is currently the interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Finance and Business, Assistant Treasurer, and Director of Investments at North Carolina State University accumulating over 30 years of experience in investment management, corporate, educational, and financial accounting. Prior to becoming Director of Investments, Ms. George was the Manager of Financial Reporting where she was responsible for the financial reporting, capital assets, cash management, debt, and taxes of North Carolina State University. Libby currently manages five portfolios at NC State with assets in excess of $1.5 billion in short term, intermediate term, charitable giving, traditional long-term endowment assets as well as long-term endowment assets invested in a sustainable responsible and impactful manner. Libby is an officer of the NC State Investment Fund, Inc. In addition, Ms. George is currently on the editorial committee of The Investment Institute, member of the CAP Trust/UNC 403B Investment Committee, and a member of 100 Women in Hedge Funds. Ms. George previously served on the State of North Carolina’s Supplemental Retirement Board of Trustees as appointed by Governor Beverly Perdue in July 2009 and was the Chair of the Investment Subcommittee of the Supplemental Retirement Board. Libby was a NC State University Award for Excellence Nominee in 1991, received the Pride of the Wolfpack Award in 2001, named one of the 125 Transformational Women of NC State in 2013, and in 2019, received the Rodney H. Adams Endowment Management Award from NACUBO (National Association of College and Business Officers) for outstanding individual contributions to professional development activities related to University Endowment and Investment Management. Libby has been involved in the community through her church in various capacities such as Wake Interfaith Hospitality Network and past chair of the Permanent Endowment Committee. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Auburn University and was an All-American NCAA athlete in Swimming for the Auburn Tigers. She became a Certified Public Accountant in 1992.

Senior Director – Investments

CommonSpirit Health

Susanne Gealy is a Senior Director of the investments team at CommonSpirit Health (formerly Dignity Health) and is based in San Francisco. She leads the organization’s public equity and directional hedge fund investments. In 2019, Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiative merged to form CommonSpirit Health, which is the largest not-for-profit health system in the US, dedicated to providing quality, compassionate health care. The organization has a $21 billion investment portfolio, allocated across the long term strategic operations, retirement benefits, endowment, and insurance pools of capital.

Prior to joining Dignity Health in 2018, Susanne spent 10 years at the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, in Austin, a $150 billion retirement plan. At TRS, she was responsible for the $26 billion external equity investment program comprising US, international, emerging markets, and global equity managers, and actively participated in the emerging manager program of newer, smaller and/or diversity oriented investment managers.

Before joining TRS, Susanne worked in New York at Investcorp, Lazard Asset Management, a family office, and Banc of America Securities. She began her career in finance at JP Morgan in equity derivatives. Prior to attending business school, Susanne worked in the field of structural engineering in San Francisco.

Susanne holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. She has a M.S. and B.S. in Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Chief Investment Officer

Virginia Tech Foundation

Mr. Ward joined the Virginia Tech Foundation in April 2008 where he serves as its Chief Investment Office – Endowment. He leads all aspects of managing the Foundation’s portfolio including manager and investment selection and setting asset allocation policy. Almost 50% of the portfolio is invested internationally including a mix of niche and direct investments. The Virginia Tech endowment performance consistently ranks in the top 25% of its peers and was honored by Institutional Investor as the top mid-sized endowment of 2011. The Foundation currently oversees approximately $1.7 Billion in operating funds and long-term endowment funds which support Virginia Tech University. Prior to joining Virginia Tech he was the director of research for Integritas Advisors, a family office, from July 2004 – April 2008. Mr. Ward holds a BBA from The University of Michigan Business School, a MBA from The University of Florida Warrington College of Business and is a CFA charterholder.

Chief Investment Strategist

Cambridge Associates

As Chief Investment Strategist for Cambridge Associates and a Managing Director of the firm, Celia is responsible for formulating our global investment strategy and portfolio construction advice. Since joining Cambridge in 1996, Celia has contributed to a wide range of research initiatives, including serving as one of the main architects of our Risk Allocation Framework and an author of the related report. She is the author of our quarterly publication, VantagePoint, in which she shares our house view and advice. Celia is a regular contributor to other research publications, covering a wide range of capital market, asset allocation, and investment planning topics. She is a frequent presenter and discussion moderator at the firm’s roundtables and various industry conferences. Before joining Cambridge Associates, Celia was a consultant for Harlan Brown & Co, a competitive intelligence consulting firm. In this position, she researched, wrote, and presented market analysis commissioned by Fortune 500 clients on a variety of consumer and industrial products. She also worked for the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), where she conducted research and wrote reports on retirement income security issues. Celia has an MBA from the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia and a BA from University of Pennsylvania.

Investment Committee

Woodruff Arts Center, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta & Zeist Foundation

Mary L. Cahill is Founder & President of Rivington Capital, an independent partner offering institutional investors a center of excellence on a wide range of topics. Mary serves on the Investment Committee for the Woodruff Arts Center, the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, and the Zeist Foundation. Mary was previously Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Emory University overseeing investments of all endowment, trust, operating, and employee benefit funds of the University and related medical facilities. Prior to joining Emory, Mary was Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Xerox Corporation. Mary’s entire career has been institutional investing, with prior positions including the Virginia Retirement System, SmithKline, BellSouth and Merck pension plans. Mary has overseen internal equity portfolios, invested fixed income and futures portfolios, built global, multi-asset portfolios, and designed investment options. Mary serves on the Boards of The Woodruff Arts Center and the Robert Toigo Foundation. Mary has served as President of Pension Group East, the NCAA Investment Committee, CIEBA and the NYSE Pension Managers Advisory Committees, and the board of The Institute For Quantitative Research in Finance. Mary has an MBA specializing in Finance from St. John’s University and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Managing Director

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

David Gilmore joined The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation in 2014 to help build the investment office. The Foundation has $2.8 billion in assets and makes over $100 million in grants each year. David is responsible for the design and implementation of the Foundation\’s asset allocation, investment manager selection and risk management. Prior to joining the Foundation, David served in several senior roles at The Ohio State University investment office which managed $3.5 billion. David was previously a partner at Gerber/Taylor Capital Advisors. David earned his BBA from Baylor University and an MBA with a concentration in Finance from the University of Memphis. David holds the Certified Financial Planner™ professional (CFP®) designation and the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation.

Chief Investment Officer

Group Health Foundation

Muthu oversees the strategic and sustainable growth of Group Health Foundation’s investments—stewarding our financial assets to create returns that advance our mission. Muthu is a seasoned asset management professional, with experience investing globally across various asset classes, including private equity, venture capital, real estate, real assets, and both public and private investments in emerging economies. He has led investment teams and strategies at Emory Investment Management, Covariance Capital Management, the University of Richmond, the State Board of Administration of Florida, and RSM Equico. Outside of work, Muthu reads a lot of nonfiction books, stays active by bicycling or jogging, and enjoys watching Tamil movies. He also likes to travel, including visiting his family and community in India. Muthu holds a BHM from Mangalore University and an MBA from Rollins College.

Chief Investment Officer

Arizona PSPRS Trust

Mark Steed is Chief Investment Officer for Arizona PSPRS, a public pension plan with approximately $9 billion in AUM. Over the last 10 years at Arizona PSPRS, Mr. Steed has managed Private Equity, Venture Capital, Absolute Return, Opportunistic Credit, Public Equity, Global Trading Strategies and Real Estate portfolios. His creative approach and notable performance across disparate asset classes won him recognition as a “Rising Star” by Money Management Magazine and, later, “Asset Allocator of the Year” by Institutional Investor. Mr. Steed recently concluded a four-year stint as a forecaster for the distinguished Good Judgment Project, led by Dr. Phil Tetlock at UPenn, and recently published the first guest-post on the popular decision science blog Farnam Street. Prior to Arizona PSPRS, Mr. Steed worked in Banking at JPMorgan Chase. Mr. Steed graduated with a Masters of Science degree in Predictive Analytics from Northwestern University. He also has an MBA from Thunderbird’s School of Global Management (Jost Henkel Scholar) and received his BA (with honors from Sigma Iota Rho) in Latin American Studies and Business Management from Brigham Young University.

CEO & CIO

Verger Capital Management

As Verger’s Chief Executive and Chief Investment Officer, Jim oversees all investment decisions and is responsible for setting the course for the company, leading our corporate strategy and ensuring that Verger remains competitively positioned to serve our partners’ needs in an increasingly complex and volatile market environment. Previously, Jim was Vice-President and Chief Investment Officer at Wake Forest University, responsible for investment of the University’s endowment, working capital and life income assets of over $1.4 billion. Prior to joining Wake Forest, Jim served as Managing Director at Wilshire Associates Inc., and Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager for Wilshire Funds Management, the money management arm of Wilshire Associates. At Wilshire, Jim was responsible for providing leadership on asset allocation, investment policy and investment manager selection. Jim served as the Chairman of the Wilshire Funds Management Investment Committee and served as Portfolio Manager for all of Wilshire Fund Management’s alternative investment portfolios. Jim holds a BBA in Finance from Villanova University, where he was a member of the NCAA Division I men’s varsity soccer team. He is married and the father of two boys. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Wells Fargo Global Alternative Investments, ASGI Agility Income Fund and the ASGI Corbin Multi-Strategy Fund, LLC. Jim also sits on the CAPTRUST Advisory Board, the North Carolina Investment Institute Editorial Committee, the CFA North Carolina Society’s Strategic Advisory Board, SEI Canada Independent Review Committee, Villanova President’s Advisory Council and serves as the Treasurer of James Denmark Loan Fund.

Head of Portfolio Management

Fund Evaluation Group (FEG)

Michael (Mike) A. Condon, CFA is Senior Vice President of Institutional Investments at Fund Evaluation Group, LLC (FEG). Condon works with Endowment and Foundation (E&F) clients within FEG’s outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) service. A long-time thought leader within the E&F space, Condon brings more than 20 years of experience as an acting CIO. Most recently as CIO at Southern Methodist University, he led a 15-person office and was responsible for all aspects of investing the university’s $1.5 billion endowment. As CIO for the University of Arkansas Foundation, Condon oversaw a $1.1 billion endowment. During his 10-year tenure at Georgia Tech, the foundation endowment grew from $440 million to $1.5 billion. Additionally, Condon is on the Editorial Committee for The Investment Institute, and on advisory Boards for Institutional Investor and Alternative Investment Management, LLC.

Senior Managing Director

Angeles Investment Advisors

David Brief is a leading expert in non-profit investment management with over 28 years of experience. David established the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago Investment Office in 2002, and under his leadership as Chief Investment Officer the endowment portfolio evolved from a $350 million internal investment program into a $1.1 billion pool that invested assets belonging to several dozen other non-profits. David has also been a leader in educating institutions on the merits of outsourced investment management. Earlier in his career, David spent eleven years as an investment consultant for three Chicago-based firms: Ibbotson Associates (now part of Morningstar Inc.), Ennis Knupp + Associates (now part of Aon Hewitt Investment Consulting, Inc.), and Capital Resource Advisors (now part of Segal Marco Advisors). Born and raised in New Jersey, David earned a BA degree in Economics from Cornell University, an MBA degree with honors from the University of Chicago, and is a CFA® Charterholder.

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Chief Investment Strategist

Cambridge Associates

As Chief Investment Strategist for Cambridge Associates and a Managing Director of the firm, Celia is responsible for formulating our global investment strategy and portfolio construction advice. Since joining Cambridge in 1996, Celia has contributed to a wide range of research initiatives, including serving as one of the main architects of our Risk Allocation Framework and an author of the related report. She is the author of our quarterly publication, VantagePoint, in which she shares our house view and advice. Celia is a regular contributor to other research publications, covering a wide range of capital market, asset allocation, and investment planning topics. She is a frequent presenter and discussion moderator at the firm’s roundtables and various industry conferences. Before joining Cambridge Associates, Celia was a consultant for Harlan Brown & Co, a competitive intelligence consulting firm. In this position, she researched, wrote, and presented market analysis commissioned by Fortune 500 clients on a variety of consumer and industrial products. She also worked for the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), where she conducted research and wrote reports on retirement income security issues. Celia has an MBA from the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia and a BA from University of Pennsylvania.

Chief Investment Officer

Davidson College

Ray Jacobson is the Chief Investment Officer at Davidson College, a highly selective independent liberal arts college for 1920 students located 20 minutes north of Charlotte, NC. Ray joined the college in the summer of 2008 and oversees all aspects of the college’s $800+ million endowment. Prior to Davidson, he served as the first investment officer for the Golden LEAF Foundation, a nonprofit established to increase economic opportunities in North Carolina’s rural and tobacco-dependent communities. Mr. Jacobson began his endowment career in 2001 as an Investment Manager at DUMAC, the investment office for Duke University. Earlier in his career, he worked at Bloomberg Financial Markets in Princeton, NJ and interned at Brown Advisory in Baltimore, MD. He received an M.B.A. from Duke University, an M.S. from Clemson University, and a B.A. from Rutgers University. He is also a CFA charterholder and serves on the Board of the Woodlawn School and The Pines at Davidson. Ray lives in the town of Davidson with his wife and four children.

President & CEO

DuPont Capital Management

Valerie J. Sill, CFA, CAIA is President and CEO of DuPont Capital Management (DCM) and serves as its Chief Investment Officer. She is responsible for overseeing the investment of more than $25 billion in assets held by DuPont Company plans and external clients. DCM manages assets across nine different asset classes using a value-based investment approach that combines valuation and risk control disciplines designed to produce risk-efficient excess returns that satisfy its clients’ investment objectives. Prior to joining DCM in April 2004, Ms. Sill was Executive Vice President at The Boston Company. There she chaired the Equity Policy Group and was the Director of Large Cap Value strategies. She was a dual officer with Dreyfus, also a Mellon company, where she managed the Dreyfus Premier Core Value mutual funds. In addition to her work at The Boston Company and Dreyfus, Ms. Sill formed and chaired Mellon’s Research Forum to foster collaboration among investment professionals from each of Mellon’s investment management subsidiaries. Ms. Sill started her career in asset management with State Street Research & Management Company as a Health Care and Utilities analyst and later joined Investment Advisors in Minneapolis as a senior analyst. Ms. Sill is a member of the Board of Trustees of Longwood Gardens and chairs its Investment Committee. Ms. Sill is a Trustee of the Christiana Care Health System and chairs its Investment Committee. Ms. Sill served a three-year term on the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Economic Advisory Council. Ms. Sill was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in Economics and Philosophy from Wellesley College. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was a Durant Scholar. She holds an MBA from Harvard University and was awarded both the CFA and CAIA charters.

Chief Investment Officer

American Trading and Production Corporation (Atapco)

Anne Shelton joined Atapco, a multi-generational single family investment company, as Chief Investment Officer in July 2017. Previously, Ms. Shelton was Deputy Chief Investment Officer of American Red Cross and led the team investing in all types of alternative investments including private equity, distressed debt, real estate, real assets, and hedge funds. Prior to working at American Red Cross, Anne was Director of Absolute Return at Cornell University and worked at McKinsey in the Corporate Finance and Strategy Practice. Anne serves on the board and finance/investment committee of YWCA National Capital Area. A CFA charterholder, Anne is active in the CFA Society of Washington DC where she has served as a board member, on the programming committee, on the nominating committee, and currently serves on the finance committee. Anne earned a B.S. with distinction in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering from Cornell University and a M.B.A. with distinction in Finance and Marketing from New York University Stern School of Business.

Deputy Chief Investment Officer

Texas Tech University System

Dan Parker is the Deputy Chief Investment Officer for Texas Tech University, and is based in Austin, Texas. In this role, he shares broad responsibility for policy, strategy, asset allocation, structure and processes across the organization and the portfolio, in addition to driving the endowment’s investments in public and private equity, diversifying and absolute return strategies, real assets and natural resources. Before relocating to Austin to join Texas Tech, Dan worked in New York as an Investment Officer with Helmsley Charitable Trust, as a Vice President in private equity with BlackRock and as an Associate in investment banking at Citigroup. He began his career serving as a US Marine, where he commanded infantry and reconnaissance units. He holds degrees from Tulane University and The College of William and Mary.

Managing Director, Private Markets

Emory Investment Management (Emory University)

Muthu is responsible for the investment strategy, analysis, and manager selection within the Private Equity and Natural Resources portfolios for Emory Investment Management. The Private Equity portfolio includes buyout, growth and distressed investments and Natural Resources is a diversified portfolio of energy, timber, real estate, and commodities. Prior to joining Emory, he was Head of Private Markets and oversaw the private market portfolio at Covariance Capital Management, an outsourced CIO firm that invests on behalf of endowments and foundations. Prior to Covariance, he was an Associate Director of Investments at Spider Management Company, the University of Richmond’s investment management company, where he led strategy and manager selection for private equity, real estate and all asset classes within emerging markets. His background also includes time as a Portfolio Manager at the Florida State Board of Administration and a Senior Analyst at RSM Equico. Muthu has a BHM from Mangalore University and an MBA from Rollins College.

Director, Public Investments

UNC Management Company

Ms. Moss is a Director of Investments focused primarily on all asset classes across the Public Portfolio including Global Equity, Fixed Income, and Diversifying Strategies across all geographies (developed and emerging), and across all structures (hedge funds, long-only). She is also a Portfolio Manager for the Intermediate Pool. Prior to joining UNCMC in 2006, Angela began her career in Boston where she worked for eight years. Most recently she was a Co-Portfolio Manager and Research Analyst for Hale and Dorr Wealth Advisors. Before Hale and Dorr, she worked in investment banking where she assisted in origination, structuring and execution of corporate finance transactions and advisory services, including mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and equity offerings. She began her career as a consultant to investment firms at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Angela is currently the Chair of the East Carolina University Board of Visitors and is the Immediate Past Chair of the Alumni Association and is the Chair of that Board’s Investment Committee and is a member of the Foundation Board’s Investment Committee. She is a member of 100 Women in Hedge Funds and launched their North Carolina chapter. She is also a member of the Triangle Community Foundation’s Investment Committee. Angela holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation and she received a B.S. in Business Administration and a M.S. in Accounting with a Tax Concentration from East Carolina University, where she was Student Body President and on the Board of Trustees.

Chief Investment Officer

Furman University

Kristopher N. Kapoor, CFA is Chief Investment Officer at Furman University, where he is responsible for the investment oversight of the university’s endowment and debt program. Prior to joining Furman, Kris was a portfolio manager with BB&T Asset Management and pension investment manager with Michelin North America, Inc. Kris holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is currently a member of the CFA Society of South Carolina. Kris earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Furman University and a Master of Business Administration in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, which he earned with distinction.

Chief Investment Officer

Davidson College

Ray Jacobson is the Chief Investment Officer at Davidson College, a highly selective independent liberal arts college for 1920 students located 20 minutes north of Charlotte, NC. Ray joined the college in the summer of 2008 and oversees all aspects of the college’s $800+ million endowment. Prior to Davidson, he served as the first investment officer for the Golden LEAF Foundation, a nonprofit established to increase economic opportunities in North Carolina’s rural and tobacco-dependent communities. Mr. Jacobson began his endowment career in 2001 as an Investment Manager at DUMAC, the investment office for Duke University. Earlier in his career, he worked at Bloomberg Financial Markets in Princeton, NJ and interned at Brown Advisory in Baltimore, MD. He received an M.B.A. from Duke University, an M.S. from Clemson University, and a B.A. from Rutgers University. He is also a CFA charterholder and serves on the Board of the Woodlawn School and The Pines at Davidson. Ray lives in the town of Davidson with his wife and four children.

Managing Director, Investments

Morgan Creek Capital Management

Mike Hennessy is a Co-founder of Morgan Creek Capital Management, and serves as the Director of Investments. In this role, Mr. Hennessy provides oversight to the Private Investments Group, and acts as a Portfolio Strategist on portfolios beyond private investments, including work with Morgan Creek’s advisory clients and proprietary funds. Prior to joining Morgan Creek in 2004, Mr. Hennessy was Vice President and a founding member of UNC Management Company. Primary areas of responsibility included domestic equity, international and emerging markets equity, opportunistic equity, absolute return, fixed income, enhanced fixed income and private investments. Mr. Hennessy also assisted in developing overall investment objectives as well as strategic and tactical asset allocation for the funds. Mr. Hennessy was responsible for monitoring both public and private individual managers and overall portfolio performance, as well as risk management. Prior to joining UNC in 1999, Mr. Hennessy was an Investment Director at Duke Management Company (Duke University) where he assisted in the management of multi-billion portfolios across all asset classes of various University-related investment pools. Before joining Duke in 1991, Mr. Hennessy was an Associate at Amundi Smith Breeden Associates, a quantitative investment management firm based in Durham, NC. Mr. Hennessy received his Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and he also holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Philosophy, Psychology and Mathematics from the College of William and Mary. Mr. Hennessy is Treasurer of Duke University Federal Credit Union, a member of the Investment Committee at the Carolina Friends School, a director of the Morgan Creek Foundation, Emeritus Trustee of the College of William & Mary Foundation Board of Trustees, and former member of its Executive Committee and Investment Committee (immediate past Chair), and a Trustee of the Murray 1693 Scholars Foundation.

Senior Vice President/Principal

LCG Associates

Mr. Challen joined LCG Associates in 2009 and is a Senior Vice President. His client relationships include corporations, utilities, endowments, and foundations. In addition to lead consultant responsibilities, James conducts capital market and asset class research, investment manager due diligence, and special topical studies.

Before joining LCG, James was with Morgan Keegan & Company as First Vice President of the Manager Due Diligence Group. He was responsible for managing a team that made investment recommendations for institutional and private clients. Concurrently, James was a Portfolio Manager for Morgan Keegan & Company’s Private Client Discretionary Program. He previously held several positions with Morgan Keegan & Company including Research Specialist and Research Associate. James began his career as a Financial Analyst at Remtech Services Inc.

James is a CFA Charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of Atlanta. He is also a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Charterholder. James graduated with a B.S. in Finance from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado.

David Brief

Mary Cahill

James J. Challen

Mike Condon

Celia Dallas

Jim Dunn

Robert Durden

Vanita Gaonkar

Susanne Gealy

Libby George

David Gilmore

Mike Hennessy

Brian Hiestand

Ray Jacobson

Beth Johnson

Kris Kapoor

Christine Kelleher

Jonathon King

Larry Kochard

Don Lindsey

Katherine Molnar

Muthu Muthiah

Dan Parker

Mark E. Roberts

Liza Scott

Anne Shelton

Donna L. Snider

Mark Steed

Daniel Ward

Mel Williams

Mark W. Yusko

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