Wellcome Trust, every mention
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every year 2020 anyone Sandra Robertson 22Wayne Wicker 1Ted Seides 1Ashby Monk 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Wellcome Trust comes up
Sandra Robertson – Oxford's Queen of Endowment Management (Capital Allocators, EP.130)
- ▶ 4:27 Ted Seides Our conversation covers Sandra's start at the Wellcome Trust in the mid-nineties, her arrival at Oxford in
- ▶ 8:16 Sandra Robertson But before I started there, I was phoned up by the agency, and they said, um, we've got this charity, and they don't really know if they need somebody full-time, but they really like your CV. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:03 Sandra Robertson There was nobody like them in the UK, and a little bit of background about Wellcome was that when Sir Henry Wellcome, who was an American, 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:07 Sandra Robertson So I think for welcome, we always did our own thing, and we're always comfortable doing our own thing because we were the only one. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:41 Sandra Robertson The first thing I did was hire my chief operating officer from the Wellcome Trust, and I did have to go and beg forgiveness from Danny for stealing her, but I wanted somebody I knew and trusted. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:12 Sandra Robertson I'd love to say I was smart, but my God, I was lucky going into September, we were mainly in cash, and then, of course, it was all at a bank, and I thought, holy moly, I don't know if I feel that safe, because the banks, of course, at that… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:15 Sandra Robertson And at Wellcome we had three years of down, I think it was double digit negative returns.