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Tom Lenehan – Taking the Helm at the Wallace Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.246)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Tom Lenahan, the Chief Investment Officer at the Wallace Foundation, where he oversees two billion dollars for the New York City-based foundation, whose mission is to foster equity and improvements in learning… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:30 Ted Seides So coming up on five years ago, but I know since then you have transitioned to the CIO seat here at Wallace and would love to hear, I guess, first, just your thoughts of going from deputy CIO to CIO. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:00 Tom Lenehan And we're now, uh, just this week, we're coming back to the office in a hybrid mode here at Wallace, where we're back Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in the office, and then Monday, Friday work from home.
- ▶ 12:22 Tom Lenehan I would say that a big difference between starting here at Wallace in 2021 versus starting at Rockefeller in 2011. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:45 Tom Lenehan And here at Wallace, I had a chance to re-underwrite the thesis.
- ▶ 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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:59 Tom Lenehan We only found out about that because we're not Sequoia investors because we were meeting our incumbent managers, some of them for the first time in person with me carrying a Wallace business card.
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 50:44 Tom Lenehan The first paragraph, we're trying to explain what the opportunity is and why it makes sense for Wallace, and we have to do that within a paragraph, so it can't be pages and pages.
- ▶ 52:54 Tom Lenehan Here at Wallace.
- ▶ 1:00:48 Tom Lenehan In addition to everybody else in the organization at Wallace and all of our grantees, but at the end of the day, if I'm not doing what the committee wants me to do, I'm doing something wrong.
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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:46 Bill Ford In investing, and in particular, maybe in private equity, but I think beyond private equity, some of these transitions should be fairly long-term, and the reason being is that something like the Wallace Foundation, you entrust your capital…