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Training Grounds – Carnegie Corporation of New York (EP.377)
- ▶ 12:15 Ted Seides So Kim, eight years later, you join from Ford Foundation. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:28 Kim Lew So, 13 years and five months at Ford Foundation, and 13 years and seven months at
Amy Falls – From Bonds to Boards to Leading Northwestern (Capital Allocators, EP.316)
- ▶ 4:22 Ted Seides She also serves on the boards of Harvard Management Company, the Ford Foundation, Phillips Academy, and the Pete Peterson Foundation.
- ▶ 31:37 Amy Falls And I had seen at both the Ford Foundation and Harvard Management Corporation, where I sit on the board, evolution in how people
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Private Equity Deals Podcast
- ▶ 37:19 unnamed speaker And then as we engaged on that idea with other organizations, whether it was nonprofits like Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, banks, Goldman, Morgan Stanley, really all the banks were excited about this.
- ▶ 38:33 Pete Stavros As Darren Walker of Ford Foundation says, it's become normal in the U.S. to work 50 hours a week
John Barber – The Art of Co-Investing at Cohesive Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.31)
- ▶ 5:55 John Barber I had a father who was a PhD from Harvard in sociology and taught at Columbia University for 35 years, and probably much more amazingly, I had a mother who was a PhD in Harvard in history and worked her whole life, including 17 years at…
Jan Garfinkle – Arboretum Ventures (Manager Meetings, EP.09)
- ▶ 6:33 Roz Hewsenian The iconic Linda Strumpf from the Ford Foundation, she made phone calls.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 2: Kim Lew – The Opportunity and Challenge (Capital Allocators, EP.152)
Laurence Siegel – Current Myths and Long-Term Optimism (Capital Allocators, EP.137)
- ▶ 4:18 Ted Seides Before his quote unquote retirement, Larry spent 15 years as the head of research at the Ford Foundation, and a dozen before that at Ibbotson Associates.
- ▶ 6:18 Larry Siegel Meanwhile, I had been recruited out of that organization in 1994 by the Ford Foundation, which made me their head of research. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:00 Ted Seides About manager selection and the value added of active management since you've left the foreign foundation?
- ▶ 57:28 Ted Seides Let me ask you one more before we just dive into some closing questions, which is, if you think about the thesis of fewer, richer, greener, what are the implications of it if you were sitting in your old seat at the Ford Foundation and… 2 times in the scene
Dawn Fitzpatrick – Multi-Faceted Investing at Soros Fund Management (Capital Allocators, EP.112)
- ▶ 26:08 Dawn Fitzpatrick So in the seventies and eighties, he was the CIO and treasurer of the Ford Foundation. 2 times in the scene
Mark Baumgartner – Luck, Risk and Uncertainty at the Institute for Advanced Study (Capital Allocators, EP.77)
- ▶ 4:20 Ted Seides Prior to joining IAS, Mark had stints at the Forge Foundation Overseeing Risk, at Morgan Stanley's Alternative Investment Partners, at both quantitative and qualitative hedge funds, and as a management consultant.
- ▶ 19:40 Mark Baumgartner And again, you think that, well, that sounds pretty unlucky or no, I choose to believe it was luck because I was fortunate enough to find the Ford foundation at that point. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:59 Mark Baumgartner And so that's what we tried to do at Ford in our pursuing a more diversified strategy, more geographically diversified, more strategically diversified.
- ▶ 43:57 Mark Baumgartner When I joined Ford, I remember one of the first meetings I had with a manager.
Roz Hewsenian –Helmsley Trust's Chief of People and Process (Capital Allocators, EP.63)
- ▶ 35:17 Roz Hewsenian At the Ford Foundation, but she's now retired, is Chairman of the Investment Committee at the Helmsley Trust,
- ▶ 40:07 Roz Hewsenian We paired it with a committed standby line of credit, and the committed standby line of credit can actually fund the grant making so that we can fund the investment side, because one of the things that happened to Ford, Carnegie Mellon,
Kim Lew – The Carnegie Way (Capital Allocators, EP.52)
- ▶ 4:19 Ted Seides Kim joined Carnegie in 2007 after spending a dozen years at the Ford Foundation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:31 Kim Lew So my little brother ended up being this guy named Perry Fagan, and Perry Fagan's mother was a woman named Betty Fagan, who was the director of research at the Ford Foundation. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:24 Kim Lew She had brought him up from legal to work with her in private, and she goes, but he's never been an investor, and the way Ford managed their portfolio at the time, it was very siloed, and so the private portfolios, distributed tech stocks,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:08 Ted Seides And at some point in time, you didn't retire, but you did leave the Ford Foundation. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:30 Kim Lew The Ford Foundation was run very much in the traditional mode of running portfolios. 7 times in the scene
James Williams – Curating The Getty's Assets (Capital Allocators, EP.50)
- ▶ 10:49 Jim Williams And Princeton and Stanford and Ford Foundation, and they were saying, why don't we look like that?
Meredith Jenkins – A Path to Trinity (Capital Allocators, EP.31)
- ▶ 31:44 Meredith Jenkins I mean, Kim and I had worked together for a long time before that, and so, and I mean, we had worked together long before Carnegie, because she did private equity at Ford, and I was doing private equity at Carnegie, and we underwrote a…
Ellen Ellison – Playing to Your Strengths (Capital Allocators, EP.27)
- ▶ 47:37 Ted Seides A little shout out to Sasha and Bill at the Ford Foundation for this question.