AAAIM High ELI

Our guest for today's podcast is Dr. Gaurav Aggarwal.  Dr. Aggarwal is a Managing Partner at Vivo Capital, a global healthcare specialist with a multi-strategy investment platform covering venture capital, private equity, and public equity strategies. The firm seeks to support the expansion of healthcare access via investments in the industry, and to catalyze innovation and growth via its "Ecosyst...

Hi, this is Angie Chatterjee, Principal at Innocap, and joining us today is Rodney June, CIO of LA City Employees' Retirement System.   Rod has been with the $27 billion LACERS public pension plan since 1998 and has served as its CIO since 2012. Prior to being named CIO at LACERS, he served as CIO for the State of Hawaii Employees' Retirement System from 2008 to 2012.  Prior to joining LACERS, Rod...

Our guest for today's podcast is Nitish Agarwal, who is the CEO & CIO at Orion Capital Asia, a Singapore based private credit investment manager. Nitish has over 30 years of experience in private debt markets across Asia.   Nitish started Orion in 2013 to focus on performing credit to middle market companies in Asia Pacific – the platform has completed more than US $2.3 billion of private loans.  ...

Joining us today is Leena Bhutta, the Chief Investment Officer of the Doris Duke Foundation. Leena leads an internal investment team responsible for managing the foundation's endowment which fully supports the foundation's operating budget – enabling a more creative, equitable and sustainable future.     Leena began her career in technology investment banking at Goldman Sachs before transitioning...

Our guest for today's podcast is Cristina Chen-Oster who is the Founder & CEO of M2M Capital, which provides real-time market-informed valuations and liquidity solutions for private companies. Previously, Cristina served as the Head of Americas Distribution for S64, a global Alternatives Solutions business committed to optimizing private market access. Cristina spent the bulk of her career on Wall...

To celebrate our 100 th podcast, I invited Brenda Chia, Chief of Capital Development of Paladin Capital Group and one of the original six founding Board Members of AAAIM to talk about all things AAAIM – past, present, future – and what we hope for the community going forward.

Our guest for today's podcast is Wendy Li, Chief Investment Officer of Ivy Invest .  Before founding Ivy Invest, Wendy spent her career as an institutional investor managing billions of dollars for some of New York's largest endowments and foundations. Most recently, Wendy was Managing Director of Investments at the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation (MCHF). At MCHF, she was responsible for developi...

Our guest for today's podcast is Richard Chau, Chief Investment Officer of the Tulane University Endowment. Richard joined Tulane in 2013 and was promoted to CIO in 2021. Prior to Tulane, Richard helped manage a multi-billion dollar global private equity portfolio in Bessemer Trust's Private Equity Funds Group. Before Bessemer, Richard worked in the investment office at The Andrew W. Mellon Founda...

Our guest for today's podcast is Tina Suo, Head of Alternative Credit for the Office of NYC Comptroller.  Tina joined the Office of the NYC Comptroller as a Senior Investment Officer in the Alternative Credit Group in August 2019. In this role, she assisted in making investment recommendations and advising on the alternative credit portfolio consisting of public and private non-traditional credit-...

Our guest for today's podcast is Sandor Hau, Managing Director and President of Charlesbank Credit. Sandor oversees the firm's opportunistic Credit team and investing strategy.  Sandor joined Charlesbank in 2016 from Nomura Securities, where he was a Managing Director and Head of Corporate Credit and Special Situations. Previously, he was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and Head of Credit Inv...

Our guest for today's podcast is Michel Lowy, who co-founded SC Lowy in 2009. SC Lowy specializes in non-investment grade credit opportunities outside the United States, focusing on opportunistic corporate lending. SC Lowy has deployed $4.8 billion in capital and manages $1.6 billion in assets, with a presence across nine offices in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Michel has focused on distress...

Our guest for today's podcast is Philip Yau who is a Managing Director at GI Partners.   Phil serves as a member of the firm's Executive Committee and is head of the firm's capital formation-business development team. His responsibilities include managing strategic relationships, developing new business initiatives, and overseeing the capital formation efforts. Prior to joining GI Partners, Phil s...

Our guest s for today's podcast are Jen Vigilante and Maine Park , Co unselors at College Labyrinth . College Labyrinth provides a highly personalized framework for students to pursue genuine interests, enriching the journey to college while finding the right next step.     Most recently, Jen spent the past decade working in the Princeton University Undergraduate Admission Office, where she was an...

Our guest for today's podcast is Tim Hsia, founder and Managing Partner of Context Ventures , a venture fund that invests in military veteran founders and also in consumer startups. Some of Tim's startup investments prior to Context Ventures include Workflow (acquired by Apple), Morning Brew (acquired by Business Insider), The Hustle (acquired by HubSpot), and Thredup (which IPO'd).   Tim is also...

Our guest for today's podcast is Vishal Bhutani, Chief Investment Officer of AMS Children's Fund (AMS), a new fund launching in early 2025.  Together with David Gaynes, Vishal is forming AMS to capitalize on the growing interest by institutional investors in the Indian equity markets.  Vishal believes that the middle market opportunity in Indian equities is one of the best investment opportunities...

Our guest for today's podcast is Darren Xu, Co-Founder and Portfolio Manager of Questline Capital. Questline Capital is a long/short equity fund focused on the gaming, media and communications sectors. After almost a decade as an investor at Farallon Capital Management, Darren decided to leave his job and will be launching his fund in the 1 st quarter of 2025. Darren started his career in investme...

Our guest for today's podcast is Dave Lu, Managing Partner of Hyphen Capital, an early stage venture capital firm focused on Asian American founders. Dave is a veteran of the technology industry, having founded two prior companies: Expo and Fanpop, as well as having worked at Apple, eBay, Cisco, Yahoo and Sony. Dave produced the Emmy-winning HBO documentary 38 at the Garden about Jeremy Lin. Amids...

Our guest for today's podcast is Raymond Chan, Partner at Atalaya Capital Management, a leading private credit firm.   Ray is responsible for the firm's investing in Financial Assets, which focuses on sourcing and executing specialty finance and other private asset-backed transactions. Prior to joining Atalaya, Ray was a Partner and Co-Founder of TTM Capital, LLC, an investment firm focused on acq...

Our guest for today's podcast is Tem Tumurbat, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Nomadic Venture Partners (NVP), where he focuses on fund strategy, fundraising, portfolio construction, valuation, and financial analysis.   Prior to co-founding NVP, Tem was an investment professional at Resource Capital Funds (RCF), a mining focused private equity investment firm, managing early to late stage inves...

Our guest for today's podcast is Glenn Hosokawa, Director of Fixed Income at CalSTRS.   After over 25 years serving CalSTRS, Glenn will be retiring at the end of August 2024 and riding off into the sunset.   If you google or search for Glenn's biography, you won't be able to find anything.   I tried.   Glenn is as old school as they come and doesn't have a social media profile.   For those that kn...

Our guest for today's podcast is Gino Reina, Principal at SECOR Asset Management.   Gino is a portfolio manager and member of the client advisory team at SECOR, responsible for client relationship management and business development.   Gino has over 20 years of investment management industry experience, including time at Segal Advisors as Director of Research, UBS Paine Webber, and Neuberger Berma...

Our guest for today's podcast is Bordon Lai, Managing Director at Beach Point Capital Management.   Bordon joined Beach Point in 2021 to help build out the firm's private equity and special situation investing capabilities.   Bordon has been in the industry for over 20 years and was previously at Quilvest Private Equity, a global multi-family office with $5B of AUM. Prior to Quilvest, Bordon worke...

Our guest for today's podcast is Ingrid Yin, Co-Founder, Managing Partner and Majority Owner of MayTech Global Investments, a New York–based firm that specializes in managing global growth portfolios. Yin started her career as a research scientist and then made a leap to the finance industry, where she worked as an analyst and honed her focus to identifying investment opportunities in Asia and in...

Our guest for today's podcast is Pam Chan, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Mosaic, a new private market strategy within Lingotto that will invest across asset classes, industries, and capital structures, and will be anchored by Exor.  Pam's mandate will be to invest in what she calls "the weird and wonderful" as she believes that flexible capital will create differentiated opportu...

Our guest for today's podcast is Alka Goel, Founding Partner of Alkemi Growth Capital, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage healthcare and wellness focused companies based in Delhi. Alkemi became operational in 2018 and since then has committed to 10 companies in diverse sub-sectors such as hygiene, diagnostics, pharma supply chain, women's reproduction, data digitization, etc. Prior to A...