Rockefeller University, every mention
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Amy Falls – From Bonds to Boards to Leading Northwestern (Capital Allocators, EP.316)
- ▶ 21:57 Amy Falls The opportunity that came up was Rockefeller University, and it was at a time also with really wonderful leadership coming into Rockefeller. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:14 Amy Falls Rockefeller has some students, but it's mostly postdocs, and they all do science, and I really am not going to teach them much.
- ▶ 31:58 Amy Falls Also, even at Tiny Rockefeller, with a much smaller team, there had been silos, and there was a benefit in kind of blurring the lines.
- ▶ 36:46 Ted Seides Curious on the manager selection side, you went from having your portfolio at Andover to turning over a portfolio and ending with a portfolio at Rockefeller. 4 times in the scene
Ted Seides – Insights on investing and podcasting (Capital Allocators, EP.269)
- ▶ 9:05 Ted Seides So taking Andy Golden at Princeton University's endowment, or Paul Valente, who had incredible returns at Bowdoin for a long time, is now at Rockefeller University.
Ashvin Chhabra – The Aspirational Investor (Capital Allocators, EP.260)
- ▶ 1:03:21 Ashvin Chhabra I'm also in a bunch of committees, Rockefeller University, National Academy of Sciences, Stony Brook Foundation, the Institute for the One Study, and I think each of these institutions represent something special.
Steve Drobny – Where the World is Going at Clocktower Group (Manager Meeting, 30)
- ▶ 4:34 Ted Seides Paul is a legend in the endowment world and recent guest on Capital Allocators, who's now serving as the chief investment officer for Rockefeller University's two and a half billion dollar endowment after spending 20 years at the helm of…
- ▶ 11:22 Steve Drobny So you at Rockefeller run a macro fund.
- ▶ 18:56 Steve Drobny Rockefeller, you can decide that with two to three billion dollars, but if you have a 100,000,000,200 billion in assets, you can't ignore it.
Tom Lenehan – Taking the Helm at the Wallace Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.246)
- ▶ 4:29 Ted Seides Before joining Wallace, he served as Deputy CIO of Rockefeller University under longtime CIO Amy Falls,
- ▶ 5:47 Tom Lenehan I can't tell you enough the training that I got at Rockefeller, you know, spending nine and a half years there with Amy Falls as the deputy got exposed to everything.
- ▶ 7:57 Tom Lenehan So while I was at Rockefeller, I was still helping to manage the entire investment team and was a very collaborative approach with Amy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:22 Tom Lenehan I would say that a big difference between starting here at Wallace in 2021 versus starting at Rockefeller in 2011. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:45 Tom Lenehan Again, this is a lesson from Rockefeller. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:22 Tom Lenehan And we actually faced this at Rockefeller. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:35 Tom Lenehan We've actually done some things that we ported over from Rockefeller in Japan, as well as in South Korea.
- ▶ 27:58 Tom Lenehan I would say the vast majority of the things that we put on the books here at Wallace have been relationships that I've had either at Rockefeller or Wintergren or any of the other organizations in which I'm affiliated with. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:45 Tom Lenehan And there's a great group here in New York that we had at Rockefeller, which is going to be very easy for us to port over.
- ▶ 40:21 Tom Lenehan One of the things that we did to try to help with at least the idea of not having too much cash, not having a need for too much cash, something that we did at Rockefeller, and we did it here at Wallace last year, was we opened up a credit… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:44 Tom Lenehan One thing I think that we did really well at Rockefeller is we hired well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:30 Tom Lenehan I hope there's no copyright infringement laws, but dare I say, from a format perspective, they look kind of similar to Rockefeller. 2 times in the scene
Paula Volent – Star Endowment Manager's Next Act at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.219)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Paula Valente, the recently named Chief Investment Officer for Rockefeller University's two and a half billion dollar endowment. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:33 Paula Volent But I think now, and actually for Rockefeller, I'm doing this as well, there's a whole new generation of venture capitalists.
- ▶ 29:14 Ted Seides When you look back on these 20 years at Bowdoin and before we'll move on to Rockefeller, what do you see as the biggest drivers of your success?
- ▶ 31:52 Paula Volent As I said, the institution is very different. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:15 Ted Seides How do you think about bringing macro managers in to Rockefeller?
- ▶ 37:01 Paula Volent I have a great team at Rockefeller and I just met with all of them.
- ▶ 42:01 Ted Seides Well, Paul, I'm really excited to see what you're going to do at Rockefeller over the next 10 or 20 years, so
Friends Reunion – Five Allocators Riff on Investing (Capital Allocators, EP.215)
- ▶ 1:01:21 Casey Whalen My career, who've been really, you know, instrumental, like Carol Einiger at Rockefeller, she was one of the first female partners on Wall Street, and being able to work with her and get confidence from her, and kind of the approach at… 3 times in the scene
Bill Ford – General Atlantic (Manager Meetings, EP.03)
- ▶ 4:33 Ted Seides Tom was one of the first guests on the show while at Rockefeller University, and earlier this year took over as chief investment officer of the 1.6 billion dollar Wallace Foundation. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:23 Tom Lenehan Having worked with Bill so long at Rockefeller for just about 10 years,
- ▶ 33:41 Bill Ford The other conviction is philanthropy, because Chuck from the beginning had a view that the wealth he was going to generate was going to be used to benefit society at large and the world at large, and that was built into the ethos from the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:55 Bill Ford Levine, who we know from Rockefeller, so I have bittersweet there a little bit, but he went deep on that.
- ▶ 55:25 Bill Ford We both learned that we were at Rockefeller together, and I think that's an industry that is going to have
Tom Lenehan – Perpetual Thinking at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.04)
- ▶ 4:30 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Tom Lenahan, the deputy chief investment officer of the Rockefeller University, where he helps lead the management of the university's two billion dollar endowment. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:46 Ted Seides And so today, you sit as the Deputy Chief Investment Officer at Rockefeller University. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:39 Tom Lenehan Primarily, it started out originally with an asset allocation approach to it, and we looked at where we, where Rockefeller was at the time back in 11, and where we thought it needed to be to accomplish several goals, generate the returns… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:11 Tom Lenehan So, you know, I hate to use names at the risk of my own career, but Jim Simons is on our committee from Renaissance, and he is a life trustee of Rockefeller.
- ▶ 54:48 Tom Lenehan So as it relates to Rockefeller, when we faced that, we looked at our venture program, and we were, because of who we are as a medical research institute, we had a lot of healthcare VC exposure. 3 times in the scene