Nkem Egekeze is chief innovation officer and Managing Director of Stealth Startup. He previously worked as an orthopedic surgery resident and as a research scholar at the University of Georgia, and a strategy advisor at Harvard Innovation Labs. He obtained his medical degree from University of Michigan medical school. He focuses on providing value-based health research and innovation insights for investment executives and medical professionals focusing in particular on cost savings and customized insights.
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Rachel Fabian-Edelman – Starting Strong and the Benefits of Positive Reinforcement
Rachel Fabian-Edelman is a community manager at Citi Accelerator & Venture Investments, which is responsible for investment in a range of start-ups. She started her career in MobilEye, a mobility company and one of Israel’s most successful start-ups, that is now a part of Intel. She has a passion for connecting and amplifying the voices of women in the profession, and has started a local women’s network, and is also committed to animal rights.
Our conversation traces Rachel’s career path through a successful start-up, how she grew through stretch assignments and with the help of management who spotted talent and nurtured it.
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.
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 the field of Victorian History.
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.
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, which launched an interest in finance and economics.
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.
Series 1 of 2025 – Trailer: Why the Devil is in the Detail.
This summary is less a trailer than a highlight reel. The year started with a new administration in the US and an explosion of the culture wars and backlash against DEI and ESG labelling. Even engagement has become more cumbersome and some may feel the hard won policies of years ago are going into reverse. Because we had lined up a list of industry experts with a focus on sustainable investing for this series, we had an excellent opportunity to ask them about the headwinds and the view of them.
301: Hunter Somerville of Stepstone Group: Venture Capital Investing – the Return of Big Swing Innovation
Hunter Somerville, a partner at Stepstone Group, where he focuses on venture capital investing with a particular specialty of digital assets and micro venture capital. Based in the Baltimore area, we reflect on what made him stay in and return to that area and the path he took to get to venture capital.
300. Chelsea Smith of Bernstein Private Wealth Management: Why Good Things Come in Threes
Chelsea Smith is Senior National Director, Family Office Services at Bernstein Private Wealth Management, based in Chicago. She started her career as an equity trader, and in recent years has been heavily involved in diversity initiatives designed to attract a more diverse pipeline into the finance industry.