Richard Chau, CIO, Tulane University Endowment, "Putting in the Work: My Journey to Tulane's CIO Seat"

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 Foundation. His previous experience also includes investment banking at Houlihan Lokey and investment consulting at Cambridge Associates.

 

Richard has a BA in Economics and Chinese from Williams College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

 

Without further ado, here is our conversation with Richard Chau.