Catherine Beard is SVP of Alternatives Consulting at Callan, the investment consultants. She has had a long career in investment consulting and allocation with a particular focus on private credit and is based in Chicago.
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Susan Martin – Greenstone Consulting – Navigating the Challenge of Change
Susan Martin is MD of Greenstone Consulting, a change and transition management firm. After a long career in the public sector, culminating in a CEO role at a financial services business, she now holds a number of director roles and works as an executive coach.
A committed change agent shares her secrets as to how to successfully execute change at a corporate level and her insights now as a coach and a director.
291. Raudline Etienne of Daraja Capital: The Power of Being First When Scouring for Talent
Raudline Etienne is the Founder and CEO of Daraja Capital, an investment and advisory firm providing seed capital to new, diversely owned, private fund managers and independent sponsors.
She has over 25 years of experience in institutional investing and consulting and previously served as CIO for the New York State Common Retirement Fund, the third largest public fund in the U.S. Prior to her role as CIO, she spent more than a decade advising institutional investors at various firms and holds a number of trustee and board roles.
288. Steve Foresti: Senior Advisor at Wilshire: From a Vision to Reality
Steve Foresti is a Senior Advisor, Investments, at Wilshire, where he has spent almost 30 years. He previously held a role as Chief Investment Officer, among other roles and is currently in a part-time role as he pursues other interests. Steve was recommended to us as a guest because of his extraordinary career arc in which he overcame a substantial loss of vision as a child to pursue a fulfilling career.
269. Tony Dote: Business Builder Extraordinaire – a Career Retrospective that charts an Industry’s Evolution
Tony Dote, just recently retired from a role of Managing Director at Lazard Asset Management, where he spent over 40 years, focused on business development with a particular focus on large institutional investors including public pension funds. He started his career in insurance and later investment consulting.
268. Ghiané Jones of the Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois: Answering the Exam Question with Creative Solutions
Ghiané Jones, is Deputy CIO at the Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois, where she is based in their Chicago office. She previously was Managing Principal at Meketa Investment Group, a role she held for over 6 years, and prior to that worked in a range of financial services roles including in institutional ETF Sales at Invesco and Northern Trust, and as a Regional Consultant at Goldman Sach
Trailer – Series 4 of 2024 – The Rise of the Custom Portfolio
As we enter high summer here we come with some summer bounty here at Fiftyfaces Podcast as we launch Series 4 that is bursting with wisdom and insights. Because life is not linear, these stories are not linear either – and they stress the power of the individual. Hear from an introvert who found her calling in connecting with people in private wealth, a pensions expert whose entire career has been driven my members first, a legendary business builder and a private credit expert forging her own path.
39. Soltan Bryce of Colorful Capital and Guidehouse: Making Finance and Public Health Flow with Pride
Soltan Bryce is a managing consultant at Guidehouse, which is a consulting firm focused on Public Health Strategy, Application Development and Management, and was recently acquired by Bain Capital Private Equity. He is a part time General Partner at Colorful Capital, which focuses on “finance flowing with Pride” and aims to bring capital support and scaffolding to enterprises founded and led by members of the broad LGBTQIA+ community, by filling financing gaps and overcoming detrimental heuristics.
32. Dani D’Amico, Partner at McKinsey: Running, Risk Management and letting Authenticity Reign
Dani D’Amico is a partner at McKinsey in their financial services practice. She has previously worked in the Inclusion, Diversity and Belonging Engagement practice at Oliver Wyman in New York, where she was also a partner, and started her career in various consulting roles.
262. Kevin Leonard of NEPC: Towards a Sustainable Future for Public Pensions and Solving Pension Envy
Kevin Leonard is Partner and Practice Group Director – Public Funds and Taft Hartley at
NEPC. He has had a long career in consulting and started his career as an accountant.
Kevin has had a career of over 30 years in investment consulting, and it had a somewhat
“accidental” start – being driven more by location and convenience than a calling. Things
quickly shifted however, and Kevin found that working with public funds where the possibility to
add value and have impact was high and the touchpoints with investment committees and
Boards frequent and satisfying.