Amy Chen, Chief Investment Officer, Smithsonian Institution “Wisdom from one of the top CIOs in the business...”
Release Date: 08/31/2022
Philip Yau, Managing Director, GI Partners
AAAIM High ELI
Our guest for today’s podcast is Philip Yau who is a Managing Director at GI Partners. Phil serves as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and is head of the firm’s capital formation-business development team. His responsibilities include managing strategic relationships, developing new business initiatives, and overseeing the capital formation efforts. Prior to joining GI Partners, Phil spent over 24 years in investment banking, including 12 years as a senior leader of the UBS Private Funds Group. I met Phil at the most recent AAAIM National Conference held in Los...
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Jenifer Vigilante and Maine Park, Counselors at College Labyrinth, “The First Step to Wall Street...Cracking the College Application Process"
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Our guests for today’s podcast are Jen Vigilante and Maine Park, Counselors at College Labyrinth. College Labyrinth provides a highly personalized framework for students to pursue genuine interests, enriching the journey to college while finding the right next step. Most recently, Jen spent the past decade working in the Princeton University Undergraduate Admission Office, where she was an Associate Dean primarily responsible for the New York City schools, evaluating more than 2,000 applications each year. Maine is a long time friend AAAIM. During her...
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Tim Hsia, Founder and Managing Partner, Context VC, “Venture Investing in Military Veteran Founders”
AAAIM High ELI
Our guest for today’s podcast is Tim Hsia, founder and Managing Partner of , a venture fund that invests in military veteran founders and also in consumer startups. Some of Tim’s startup investments prior to Context Ventures include Workflow (acquired by Apple), Morning Brew (acquired by Business Insider), The Hustle (acquired by HubSpot), and Thredup (which IPO’d). Tim is also the CEO & Founder of (an online ad network, marketing agency, and media company). Tim is a distinguished honor graduate of West Point and was commissioned as an infantry officer in the US Army....
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Vishal Bhutani, CIO, AMS Children’s Fund, “Capitalizing on Indian Equity Markets with Downside Protection”
AAAIM High ELI
Our guest for today’s podcast is Vishal Bhutani, Chief Investment Officer of AMS Children’s Fund (AMS), a new fund launching in early 2025. Together with David Gaynes, Vishal is forming AMS to capitalize on the growing interest by institutional investors in the Indian equity markets. Vishal believes that the middle market opportunity in Indian equities is one of the best investment opportunities available today. Leveraging his experience as an event driven portfolio manager, AMS believes it will be able to achieve superior risk adjusted returns. Vishal has spent...
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Darren Xu, Co-Founder and Portfolio Manager, Questline Capital
AAAIM High ELI
Our guest for today’s podcast is Darren Xu, Co-Founder and Portfolio Manager of Questline Capital. Questline Capital is a long/short equity fund focused on the gaming, media and communications sectors. After almost a decade as an investor at Farallon Capital Management, Darren decided to leave his job and will be launching his fund in the 1 st quarter of 2025. Darren started his career in investment banking in Mergers and Acquisitions at Citigroup after graduating with two degrees, one in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and the other in Business from the Wharton School. ...
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Dave Lu, Managing Partner, Hyphen Capital, “Stand with Asian Americans”
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Our guest for today’s podcast is Dave Lu, Managing Partner of Hyphen Capital, an early stage venture capital firm focused on Asian American founders. Dave is a veteran of the technology industry, having founded two prior companies: Expo and Fanpop, as well as having worked at Apple, eBay, Cisco, Yahoo and Sony. Dave produced the Emmy-winning HBO documentary 38 at the Garden about Jeremy Lin. Amidst the rise of anti-Asian hate during the pandemic, Dave led a movement with an open letter signed by 8,000 leaders including President George Bush and the CEOs of Google, DoorDash, Zoom and others...
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Ray Chan, Partner, Atalaya Capital Management, “Humility, Success and Paying it Forward”
AAAIM High ELI
Our guest for today’s podcast is Raymond Chan, Partner at Atalaya Capital Management, a leading private credit firm. Ray is responsible for the firm’s investing in Financial Assets, which focuses on sourcing and executing specialty finance and other private asset-backed transactions. Prior to joining Atalaya, Ray was a Partner and Co-Founder of TTM Capital, LLC, an investment firm focused on acquiring and lending against portfolios of financial and other assets. Previously, he was a Managing Director and co-head of the Assets Group at Highbridge/Zwirn Capital Management. ...
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Tem Tumurbat, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Nomadic Venture Partners, “Accelerating Decarbonization for a Sustainable Future”
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Our guest for today’s podcast is Tem Tumurbat, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Nomadic Venture Partners (NVP), where he focuses on fund strategy, fundraising, portfolio construction, valuation, and financial analysis. Prior to co-founding NVP, Tem was an investment professional at Resource Capital Funds (RCF), a mining focused private equity investment firm, managing early to late stage investments. He de-risked companies, commercialized their businesses and successfully completed M&As that delivered hundreds of millions of dollars to investors. Prior to RCF, Tem worked...
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Glenn Hosokawa, Director of Fixed Income, CalSTRS, “Riding off into the sunset after 25+ Years at CalSTRS”
AAAIM High ELI
Our guest for today’s podcast is Glenn Hosokawa, Director of Fixed Income at CalSTRS. After over 25 years serving CalSTRS, Glenn will be retiring at the end of August 2024 and riding off into the sunset. If you google or search for Glenn’s biography, you won’t be able to find anything. I tried. Glenn is as old school as they come and doesn’t have a social media profile. For those that know Glenn, he is credited for building a world class Fixed Income investment division at one of the most admired places to work. Glenn isn’t looking for any...
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Gino Reina, Principal, SECOR Asset Management, “Investment Management, Restaurant Entrepreneur and 100 mile Ultra Marathoner"
AAAIM High ELI
Our guest for today’s podcast is Gino Reina, Principal at SECOR Asset Management. Gino is a portfolio manager and member of the client advisory team at SECOR, responsible for client relationship management and business development. Gino has over 20 years of investment management industry experience, including time at Segal Advisors as Director of Research, UBS Paine Webber, and Neuberger Berman as a portfolio manager on the mutual fund wrap platform. Gino holds a Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA) in Banking and Finance from Hofstra University. In addition, he is a member...
info_outlineOur guest for today’s podcast is Amy Chen, Chief Investment Officer at the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum, educational and research complex. Amy oversees overall investment strategy and management of the institution’s endowment. Under Amy’s leadership since 2006, the investment office has grown from $800 million to $2.5 billion while distributing $1 billion along the way… not bad!
Amy credits the culture of the organization and why having the right governance structure is key to being successful and maintaining the high level of success over time. Fun fact: her senior leadership team’s average tenure is over 13 years, which is unprecedented in the money management space.
Curious about what it takes to be one of the top CIOs in the business? Well, Amy shares many insights with the audience during this podcast.
Without further ado, please enjoy our conversation with Amy Chen.