310. Fernando Vinzons of Chicago Teachers Pension Fund: From the Shoulders of Giants to Forging a New Path

Fernando Vinzons is Chief Investment Officer at the Chicago Teacher’s Pension Fund, a role he has held for almost 3 years. He previously spent over 13 years at the Cook County Pension Fund and started his career in investment research....
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309. Peter Wilson of HarbourVest Partners – The Growth that Lies at the Edge of the Comfort Zone

Peter Wilson is Managing Director at HarbourVest Partners, a private markets specialist firm with over $140 billion in assets across 14 offices. Peter has worked at HarbourVest for most of his career, in a series of roles, most recently as one of two members of the firm's Executive Management Committee which ran the firm from 2012 to 2024....
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308. Tom Doyle of Pemberton Asset Management: On new frontiers, NAV financing and the power to “elevate”

Tom Doyle is Partner and Head of NAV Financing at Pemberton Asset Management, a role he has held for over three years. He previously held a similar role at 17Capital....
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307. Cathy Bevan of Benefit Street Partners: Seeking structure and design in credit, careers and life

Cathy Bevan is Head of Structured Credit at Benefit Street – Alcentra.  She has spent most of her career in credit structuring with roles on the sell side and buy side....
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Series 2 of 2025 – Trailer – Signal from Noise

Series 2 of the 2025 podcast was born into a time of tremendous market turbulence. In our ten conversations with a diverse range of guests – sourced globally, we go top down, and bottom up – into the weeds, and take helicopter views. Tune in to hear about the technologies in venture capital and climate tech that excite even the most experienced...
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306. Bonus: Victoria Barbary of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds – at the intersection of politics, macroeconomics and finance

Victoria Barbary  is Director of Strategy & Communications for the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF) in which her focus is to help sovereign wealth funds become better investors for the benefit of their citizens.  She formerly worked in research roles relating to Sovereign Wealth Funds and prior to that was a PhD student in th...
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305: Rich Byrne of Benefit Street Partners: When your Opponent is your Teacher and Ego is the Enemy – lessons from Jiu Jitsu for finance and life

Rich Byrne is President and CEO of Benefit Street Partners as well as a decorated Brailian Jiu Jitsu champion. In this fascinating podcast we discus his journey from a fine arts major to a leading figure in finance and the many twists and turns in between. ...
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303. Erik Hirsch of Hamilton Lane: Self-awareness at a firm and personal level as a key to driving meaningful change in private markets

Erik Hirsch is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Hamilton Lane, where he is responsible for the firm’s strategic direction and operations. The firm currently has over $900 billion in assets under management and supervision and is committed to driving meaningful change in private markets for the institutions and other clients that it serves.  ...
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304. Sonali Pier of PIMCO: The intersection of Career, Credit and Culture

Sonali Pier is a Managing Director at PIMCO in Newport Beach, with a particular focus on Multi-Sector Credit.  She previously worked as a credit trader and was named recently to the Marketwatch 50 most influential people in markets.  Our conversation starts with her education, and a stock picking competition at the tender stage of sixth grade, wh...
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302. Beverley Gower-Jones, OBE FEI of The Clean Growth Fund: Limiting Carbon for Cleaner Growth – The Investment Opportunity

Beverley Gower-Jones, OBE FEI is Managing Partner at The Clean Growth Fund and Chief Executive Officer at Carbon Limiting Technologies. She is an independent member on Governments Net Zero Innovation Board (NZIB). The Board provides strategic oversight of government funding of net zero innovation programs....
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