Nancy Donohue is the Chief Investment Officer and co-founder of Summit Rock. Prior to Summit Rock, Nancy served as the Vice President for External Management at Harvard Management Company ("HMC"). She was responsible for $16 billion of investments, approximately half of the University’s endowment, with leading money managers around the world. Her portfolio was broadly diversified and included investments in global equity, fixed income, hedge fund, real estate, private equity, and commodity strategies. Nancy acted as a lead investor in many innovative investment companies around the world, including in India and China. She served on numerous investment advisory boards in the hedge fund and real estate arena. Nancy was also the Chief Investment Officer for Harvard Master Trust, the University’s $780 million defined benefit pension plan for 12,000 current and former employees. Nancy worked on Wall Street for a decade before joining HMC, first at Goldman Sachs and later at Deutsche Bank in the field of Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange Derivatives. She executed leveraged transactions in the worldwide markets, including emerging markets, for a number of leading arbitrage and global macro hedge funds. Nancy started her career in alternative assets at O’Connor & Associates, a leading options and futures trading house that was an early adopter of using computer modeling and quantitative methods to manage portfolio pricing and risk.
Nancy is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Brown University. She is the author of numerous HBS Case Studies, including “Investing in Commodities as an Alternative Asset Class.”
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