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Jeff Collins - Care Bears and Cargo Planes

Jeff Collins - Care Bears and Cargo Planes

S4E8 · · 55:30

There’s a vast landscape of valuable but unconventional assets out there, but how do you find them, filter them, and properly value them? What frameworks can you use to understand th...

Joan Solotar - Scale as Advantage at Blackstone

Joan Solotar - Scale as Advantage at Blackstone

S4E7 · · 55:59

Joan Solotar is global head of Blackstone Private Wealth and a member of the firm’s management committee. Joan’s career tracks the fascinating evolution of Wall Street in the past th...

Mark Strauch - Fishing in a Different Pond

Mark Strauch - Fishing in a Different Pond

S4E6 · · 49:27

Mark Strauch is a founding partner and president of the private equity firm Alpine Investors, known for its unique CEO training program. With a background in Industrial Engineering f...

Paul Carbone - The Advantage of Family Capital

Paul Carbone - The Advantage of Family Capital

S4E5 · · 01:00:37

Today we are going to hear the story of one of the most interesting firms to spring from a significant family office.  JB and Tony Pritzker approached today’s guest, Paul Carbone, wi...

Jason Mudrick - The Debt Landscape

Jason Mudrick - The Debt Landscape

S3E4 · · 55:13

Jason Mudrick is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of the $3.4 billion Mudrick Capital Management, a firm renowned for its expertise in navigating complex credit situations an...

Matt Fleissig - The Service Matrix

Matt Fleissig - The Service Matrix

S4E3 · · 55:44

Today, we're charting the remarkable trajectory of a wealth management powerhouse: Pathstone. Joining us is Matt Fleissig, co-founder and CEO.   Pathstone is a great case study for t...

Michael Fisch - Buying Market Leaders

Michael Fisch - Buying Market Leaders

S4E2 · · 51:17

Michael Fisch is a founder and the CEO of American Securities, a $23 billion private equity firm that originated in the Rosenwald family office.  This is a great story of a fabled fa...

Jim Tananbaum - AI and the Language of Biology

Jim Tananbaum - AI and the Language of Biology

S4E1 · · 46:59

Today’s guest is Jim Tananbaum of Foresite Capital.  One of the most exciting places AI is revolutionizing is drug discovery, so I was very excited to have Jim on today. Jim Tananbau...

Mark Gerson - Master of Networks

Mark Gerson - Master of Networks

S3E17 · · 49:36

Today’s guest is Mark Gerson of 3i Members. Mark is a remarkable entrepreneur, philanthropist, and master at creating networks.  He is most well known for founding Gerson Lehrman Gro...

David Salem - Know What You Own

David Salem - Know What You Own

S3E16 · · 01:10:52

David Salem has had a remarkable career. He did his undergrad at Middlebury, went to Harvard Business School where he sat next to Seth Klarman, then went to work with Jeremy Grantham...

Jennifer Prosek - Power of Storytelling

Jennifer Prosek - Power of Storytelling

S3E15 · · 57:18

Jennifer Prosek has built a powerhouse communications firm by focusing on asset management.  She asked herself, "Why does the financial industry not care about its brand, and why are...

Zoe Cruz - Morgan Stanley to DeFi

Zoe Cruz - Morgan Stanley to DeFi

S3E14 · · 51:36

Zoe Cruz is a prominent figure in the financial services industry, known for her significant contributions and groundbreaking achievements as one of the highest-ranking women on Wall...

Michael Weisz - Yieldstreet

Michael Weisz - Yieldstreet

S3E13 · · 51:22

Michael Weisz has a real knack for finding unconventional opportunities and a strong entrepreneurial spirit.  He cut his teeth in real estate, but quickly found his nuanced understan...

Ted Seides - Private Equity Deals

Ted Seides - Private Equity Deals

S3E12 · · 53:24

Today’s guest is Ted Seides from Capital Allocators podcast.  I first did a print interview with Ted exactly seven years ago, when he had just completed his first book So You Want to...

Greg Fleming - Rockefeller Capital Managment

Greg Fleming - Rockefeller Capital Managment

S3E11 · · 57:29

Greg Fleming is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Rockefeller Capital Management, a role he has held since the firm, formerly known as Rockefeller & Co., launched in March...

Ken Kencel - President and CEO of Churchill Asset Management

Ken Kencel - President and CEO of Churchill Asset Management

S3E10 · · 51:43

Ken Kencel is the President & CEO of Churchill Asset Management, a $50 billion dollar platform serving over 700 institutional clients.  He shared valuable insights on the growing pri...

Jason Schwarz - Wilshire's Content Engine

Jason Schwarz - Wilshire's Content Engine

S3E9 · · 40:57

Jason Schwarz is Deputy Chief Executive Officer and President at Wilshire, which currently manages over $100 billion in assets and advises on $1.3 trillion.  Jason was raised in a le...

Anthony Scaramucci - The Capital Artist

Anthony Scaramucci - The Capital Artist

S3E8 · · 52:47

Anthony Scaramucci, is the founder and managing partner of Skybridge Capital and the SALT Conference.  We had a wide ranging and candid conversation about his new book, his path from...

Carin-Isabel Knoop - Executive Director of the Harvard Business School Research and Case Writing Division

Carin-Isabel Knoop - Executive Director of the Harvard Business School Research and Case Writing Division

S3E7 · · 49:51

Carin-Isabel Knoop is the founder and executive director of the Harvard Business School Research and Case Writing Division.  This conversation was spurred by two things, one that I f...

Scott Sperling - Co-CEO of Thomas H. Lee Partners

Scott Sperling - Co-CEO of Thomas H. Lee Partners

S3E6 · · 49:13

Scott Sperling is the Co-CEO of Thomas H. Lee Partners.  We had an excellent conversation about his time at Harvard Management Company under legendary figures like Walter Cabot and J...

Michael Tiedemann - CEO of AlTi Tiedemann Global

Michael Tiedemann - CEO of AlTi Tiedemann Global

S3E5 · · 57:35

Michael Tiedemann is a founding partner and chief executive officer of AlTi Tiedemann Global, a publicly traded $70 billion investment firm. He is also a member of the firm’s board o...

Alex Chaloff - CIO of Bernstein Private Wealth Management

Alex Chaloff - CIO of Bernstein Private Wealth Management

S3E4 · · 48:56

Alex Chaloff is the CIO of Bernstein Private Wealth Management. We had a great conversation talking about his personal litmus test for a manager, what to do with lagging funds, the a...

Mark Hurley - Welcome to the Wealth Management Jungle

Mark Hurley - Welcome to the Wealth Management Jungle

S3E3 · · 59:04

Today we have Mark Hurley, who recently co-authored a white paper called Welcome to the Jungle: The Next Phase of the Evolution of the Wealth Management Industry. Mark has written se...

Steffen Pauls - Future of Private Equity

Steffen Pauls - Future of Private Equity

S3E2 · · 53:13

Steffen Pauls is a serial entrepreneur with a long background in the private equity industry.  His career started at BCG; he started and sold a fintech company during the dot com era...

Casey Whalen - Lessons from David Swensen

Casey Whalen - Lessons from David Swensen

S3E1 · · 01:01:33

Casey Whalen has had a remarkable investing career starting at the Yale investments office, then Rockefeller University, the CIO of the New York Public Library, running three billion...

Ryan Eisenman - The Challenge of Data

Ryan Eisenman - The Challenge of Data

S2E11 · · 42:30

Today we are speaking to Ryan Eisenman, co-founder and CEO of Arch, a leading fintech startup that is a digital administrator for private investments.   I thought it would be great t...

Jon Hirtle - An Uninterrupted Chain of Logic

Jon Hirtle - An Uninterrupted Chain of Logic

S2E9 · · 54:32

Today we have Jon Hirtle, founder and executive chairman of Hirtle, Callaghan & Co, a $20 billion  OCIO firm.  I was especially interested to talk to Jon because he is a real process...

Jan Szilagyi - AI for Portfolio Insight

Jan Szilagyi - AI for Portfolio Insight

S2E8 · · 53:33

AI for Portfolio Insight Jan Szilagyi is the CEO and co-founder of Toggle AI, a generative AI startup that uses machine learning to turn institutional-grade data into insights for in...

Stan Miranda - Bain Meets the Yale Model at Partners Capital

Stan Miranda - Bain Meets the Yale Model at Partners Capital

S2E8 · · 58:16

Stan Miranda is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Partners Capital, a global OCIO with $50 billion under management.  Stan was previously a longtime director at Bain and chairman of the...

Paul Edelman - Conceptual Thinking

Paul Edelman - Conceptual Thinking

S2E7 · · 01:03:01

Paul Edelman is a psychologist who has worked with some of the world’s most successful hedge fund managers.  Today we take a deep dive into how psychological techniques can be used t...