Asset Owners Finalists
Asset Management/Servicing Finalists
NextGen of the Year Finalists
Public Defined Benefit Funds $100 Billion and Above
- C. William Cary (Employees’ Retirement System of Georgia (ERSGA) and Teachers Retirement System of Georgia (TRSGA)
- Edwin Denson (State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB)
- Paul Greff (Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS)
- Mansco Perry III (Minnesota State Board of Investment (SBI) Winner
- Anastasia Titarchuk (New York State Common Retirement Fund)
- Allyson Tucker (Washington State Investment Board (WSIB)
- Eduard van Gelderen (Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments)
Public Defined Benefit Funds From $21 Billion to $99 Billion
- Scott Davis (Indiana Public Retirement System (INPRS)
- Ray Joseph (Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions (LAFPP)
- Barry Kenneth (Pension Protection Fund (PPF)
- Amy McGarrity (Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA)
- Molly Murphy (Orange County Employees Retirement System (OCERS) Winner
- Andrew Palmer (Maryland State Retirement and Pension System (MSRA)
Public Defined Benefit Funds Below $21 Billion
- Jeb Burns (Municipal Employees’ Retirement System (MERS) of Michigan) Winner
- Farouki Majeed (School Employees Retirement System of Ohio (SERS)
- Katherine Molnar (Fairfax County Police Officers Retirement System Public Pension)
- Andrew Spellar (Fairfax County Retirement Systems)
- Kristin Varela (interm) (Public Employees Retirement Association of New Mexico (PERA)
- Jeremy Wolfson (Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP)
Sovereign Wealth Funds
- Jeffrey Jaensubhakij (GIC)
- Abdiel Santiago (Fondo de Ahorro Panama)
- Ruchit Shah (Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company)
- Robert “Vince” Smith (New Mexico State Investment Council (NMSIC) Winner
- B. Holland Timmins (Texas Permanent School Fund)
Corporate Defined Benefit Plans Above $20 Billion
- Douglas Brown (Exelon)
- Harshal Chaudhari (General Electric (GE)
- Laurence Fulton (Verizon Investment Management Corporation (VIMCO)
- Jeff Lewis (FedEx) Winner
- Jeff Pickett (Stellantis N.V.
- Valerie Sill (DuPont Capital Management
Corporate Defined Benefit Plans Below $20 Billion
- Kathleen Lutito (CenturyLink Investment Management)
- Ian McKnight (Royal Mail)
- Thomas Mucha (Eastman Kodak) Winner
- Elena Parrino (Altria)
- Dekia Scott (Southern Company)
Corporate Defined Contribution Plans
- Angie Buk (3M Investment Management Corporation)
- Jeanmarie Grisi (Nokia)
- Kathleen Lutito (CenturyLink Investment Management) Winner
- Andy Ward (Boeing)
Health Care Plans
- Jason Klein (Memorial Sloan Kettering)
- Alyssa Rieder (CommonSpirit Health) Winner
- Philip Rotner (Boston Children’s Hospital)
- Stefan Strein (Cleveland Clinic)
- J.C. Stilley (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
Most Collaborative
- Tim Corbett Massachusetts Mutual
- Walter Kress EY Winner
- Jinwen Chen, Jeff Smith and Ryan Dotson Smithsonian Institution, working with Digital Asset Roundtable
- “State of California CIOs” including the state and city consortium of CIOs
- “Health Care Posse” Health care CIOs including Donna Snider at Hackensack Meridian Health, Syed Haque at Novant Health, and some 25 others
Risk Management
- Harshal Chaudhari General Electric (GE)
- Edwin Denson State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB)
- Jonathan Glidden Delta Air Lines Winner
- Jonathan Grabel Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA)
- Bob Hunkeler International Paper
- Doug Brown Exelon
Endowments
- Seth Alexander Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Winner
- Collette Chilton Williams College
- Jane Dietze Brown University
- Kathleen Jacobs New York University (NYU)
- Meredith Jenkins Trinity Church Wall Street
- Anne Martin Wesleyan University
- Scott Richland California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
- Scott Wilson Washington University in St. Louis
Foundations
- Rukaiyah Adams Meyer Memorial Trust
- Sam Gallo University System of Maryland (USM) Foundation
- K.C. (McClelland) Krieger Eli Broad’s Family Office and the Broad Foundations
- Chun Lai The Rockefeller Foundation
- Ana Marshall The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- Nick Moakes The Wellcome Trust
- Carlos Rangel W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Kim Sargent The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Winner
Efforts in Diversity
- Cheryl Alston Employees’ Retirement Fund of the City of Dallas (ERF) Winner
- Robin Diamonte Raytheon Technologies
- Elizabeth Hewitt The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Eric Doppstadt Ford Foundation
- Carlos Rangel W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Anastasia Titarchuk New York State Common Retirement Fund
- Juan Martinez Knight Foundation
Efforts in ESG
- Christopher Ailman California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) Winner
- Jonathan Grabel Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA)
- Tom Joy Church of England
- Michael Larson Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- David Lee Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
- Geraldine Leegwater PGGM
- Elizabeth McGeveran McKnight Foundation
NextGen
- Alex Ambroz Director, Cleveland Clinic Investment Office
- Evril Clayton Jr. Deputy Director of Global Equity, New York State Common Retirement Fund Winner
- Lauren Jacobson Managing Director, Columbia Investment Management Company
- Jason Rector Managing Analyst, State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB)
- Samantha Foster Managing Director, University of Southern California Endowment
