Wale Adeosun

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Previously, Walé was Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer (CIO) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), where he managed $1 billion in endowment and pension assets. He was a Managing Director in the Investments Group of the MacArthur Foundation with oversight of $2 billion in U.S. equities and hedge fund investments and he was a member of the Pension Investments group at Inland Steel Industries (now, ArcelorMittal USA) with oversight of $2 billion in assets.

Walé serves on the Boards of several portfolio companies and he was the former Chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee of the $200 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund. In 2014, he was appointed to serve on President Obama’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA). He currently serves as the Chairman of the Nigeria Higher Education Foundation (NHEF), a Foundation created by the MacArthur Foundation to assist Nigerian Universities.

Walé was inducted into the New York Chapter of the National Association of Security Professionals Wall Street Hall of Fame in (2008). Walé Adeosun holds a BA in Economics and Business Administration at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa where he serves as a Trustee of the Board. He received his MBA from John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri with a concentration in Finance. He was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1995 and is a member of the CFA Institute.