Seattle-based Casey Family Programs is searching for a director of private investments for its roughly $2 billion portfolio.
Consulting firm R.V. Kuhns & Associates has hired is Inma Conde Goldman who will join the firm September 13 as a manager research consultant to work on non-U.S. equity research.
Boston College has tapped John Zona to be associate treasurer and director of investments, a role that has him overseeing the Eagles’ roughly $1.75 billion endowment.
Mistra, the Swedish foundation for strategic environmental research, has hired a new ceo.
Over the past year cios at endowments and foundations have continued to change jobs, leaving many high-profile institutions searching for investment chiefs.
The New Mexico State Investment Council, which manages $13.4 billion in permanent funds for the State of New Mexico, has appointed Doug Brown to be its new vice chairman.
California Institute of Technology’s investment office is searching for a quantitative research analyst.
Adelante Capital Management has hired marketing veteran Paul Olschwanger to be its head of business development.
Jackie de Sanctis, who was a part of the consultant relations team at RCM Capital Management, has left the firm and joined Neuberger Berman in Los Angeles.
Adam Tosh, former Kentucky Retirement Systems cio, has moved to Darien, Conn.-based consulting firm Rogerscasey, where he will be a managing director for investment solutions.
Greenwich, Conn.-based money manager Gramercy has tapped Jeffrey Grills and Gunter Heiland to launch its emerging markets U.S. dollar sovereign debt, corporate debt and local currency sovereign debt strategies.
The University of Florida Investment Corporation, which manages more than $1.6 billion for various entities of the University of Florida, has hired Doug Wynkoop to be its cio.
Manning & Napier Advisors has named Patrick Cunningham as ceo and Jeff Coons as president, according to a letter written to clients by William Manning, chairman.
Perella Weinberg Partners’ outsourced cio business is seeking a marketer.
Chris Baggini has joined Turner Investment Partners as senior portfolio manager of the firm’s new long/short equity strategy and security analyst for the firm’s growth equity investing team.
The University of Southern California is searching for a cio to oversee its roughly $3 billion endowment.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management has hired Stanton Neilson and Beth Borrow to its Global Corporate Credit team in the wake of the departure of Steven Pawliczek, Vikki Lindstrom and Krishna Tyagarajan, who left the firm last month.
The roughly $600 million Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is eyeing a new cio.
The investment staff at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has joined CIO Walè Adeosun at Chesapeake Asset Management.
The University of California regents, which oversee roughly $63 billion in endowment and retirement assets for the mammoth state university system, has hired Edmond Fong as an investment officer for its absolute return team.
Berkeley Endowment Management Company, the asset management unit created last year by the University of California, Berkeley Foundation, is searching for a director of investments.
Scott Schroepfer, high-yield fixed-income sector manager at Columbia Management, has resigned.
Marketing veteran Rachel Minard has joined $3.5 billion fund of hedge funds shop Optima Fund Management.
Ameriprise Financial has named Colin Lundgren as head of fixed income and Todd White as head of alternative and absolute return investments at RiverSource Investments.
Walé Adeosun, cio of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has left to join Chesapeake Asset Management.
Ennis, Knupp & Associates has hired Ron Klotter, practice leader for endowments and foundations at Ellwood Associates.
Brian Rice, a senior vice president and marketer at TCW, based in New York, has left the firm after less than a year.
Doreen Mochrie, head of investor relations for Pershing Square Capital Management, has left the firm.
Richard Cohen, executive director for Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing, has left the firm to join GoldenTree Asset Management, where he will market real estate strategies.
Drexel University has hired Catherine Ulozas, senior portfolio manager at ING Direct, to be its director of investments.
The University of Wisconsin Foundation, which has over $2 billion in assets, is in the market for a managing senior director of investments to oversee public equity and assist with its hedge fund portfolio.
Ascension Health, which has $15 billion in assets between its pension and operating funds, has hired Josh Kaplan, formerly director of investments at Drexel University, to oversee its hedge fund allocation.
Michelle Keeley, executive v.p., Minneapolis Equities and Fixed Income, a unit of RiverSource Institutional Advisors, plans to leave the firm when Ameriprise Financial, the parent company of RiverSource Investments, acquires Bank of America’s asset management arm, Columbia Management.
Agecroft Partners, the Richmond, Va.-based third-party hedge fund marketing firm started by industry veteran Don Steinbrugge, has hired a marketer to focus on the Middle East and Asia.
Gina Sanchez, former director of public investments for the $10 billion Ford Foundation, has joined Roubini Global Economics.
Mike Smith, cio of the University of Florida Investment Corporation, is leaving to join Global Endowment Management.
Marketing veteran Rachel Minard has left Cogo Wolf Asset Management.
Gina Sanchez, director, public investments, for the $10 billion Ford Foundation, has left after a brief stint.
Jack Pierce has been tapped as a principal for Robeco Investment Management.
Greg Hartley, co-owner, portfolio manager and research analyst at Kalmar Investments, has left the firm.
Allan Toole, former portfolio manager at TCW and head of Portfolio Analytics Group, has joined DoubleLine Capital as chief risk officer and head of product development.
Russell Kuhns, chairman and founder of R.V. Kuhns & Associates, plans to retire June 30.
Endowment investment committee members, traditionally an all-voluntary corps, should be paid for their service, Chris Bittman, cio of University of Colorado Foundation and head of Perella Weinberg Partners outsourced cio business, told attendees at the National Association of College and University Business Officers’ Endowment Management Forum.
The University of Chicago is searching for a chief risk officer and a managing director of strategy for its roughly $5 billion endowment.
George Yepes, managing director in North American Distribution for fund of hedge funds manager Gottex Fund Management, has left the firm.
Southern Methodist University has hired McCall Merchant as director of investments to help oversee its private investments.
Robeco-Sage, the fund of hedge funds unit of Robeco Group, has tapped Michael Welch from Coast Asset Management to market its funds on the West Coast.
Mihir Meswani, formerly the director of public market managers at the $8 billion Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has joined Sandalwood Securities, the Roseland, N.J.-based $1 billion credit fund of funds, as part of a push to attract institutional clients.
Claire Shaughnessy, managing director of consulting at Rogerscasey, has joined Hewitt Associates in Connecticut as a senior investment consultant.
Robeco Investment Management will hire two institutional sales professionals in the first quarter.
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Rockefeller & Company has hired Russell Reynolds Associates to begin a search for a new ceo, replacing Jim McDonald, who passed away in September.
Carolyn Burke has joined Mesirow Advanced Strategies, the fund of hedge funds subsidiary of Mesirow Financial, as chief financial officer.
David Lucey, managing director at Pyramis Real Estate Group, the real estate arm of Pyramis Global Advisors, has left the firm due to personal reasons.
Invesco is actively looking to double its consultant relations staff to six.
Lyxor Asset Management has hired Michael Bernstein to spearhead marketing funds of hedge funds to U.S.-based institutional investors and consultants.
Lebanese American University has hired David Grosner from Hewitt Associates as its senior investment officer for its roughly $330 million endowment.
Southern Methodist University is searching for a director of investments to help oversee its private investments.