The senior v.p. for finance leads the university’s finance department and joined the institution this month after six years at another southern university.
The fund has received an $100 million unrestricted grant to support its capital campaign and will deploy it by building a pooled endowment fund that will increase member institutions endowments by $10 million each.
The university has hired a discretionary investment consultant after conducting an invitation-only RFP process that began in the second quarter of 2023.
The firm’s latest fund targeting value-added investments in hotels across the U.S. was oversubscribed after receiving commitments from endowments, foundations, public and corporate pension plans, insurance companies and wealth management firms.