Position Type: Independent Boards
Foundation and endowment industry experts giving back.
Alyssa Rieder is an experienced board member and CIO with decades of finance and investment experience as an institutional allocator and investor. She is an expert in ESG/impact investing and experienced in scaling growth and merger integration.
Alyssa has a strong background in overseeing and managing CommonSpirit Health’s $50 billion investment program comprised of multiple pools of capital including corporate, retirement, foundation, and self-insurance assets. The program has $30 billion invested with over 150 investment managers across asset classes, alongside oversight of the manager line up of $20 billion in DC assets. Alyssa manages a staff-driven investment team, actively engaged in manager selection and monitoring, portfolio rebalancing, asset allocation, and risk management, with particular focus on sustainable and impact investing. The program has had an impressive record of long-term outperformance versus benchmarks. (Previously CIO at Dignity Health)
Jennifer Deger, Director of Finance & Global Controller, leads the Global Financial & Accounting Services team which reports to the CFO as part of the Finance & Strategy Group of the Gates Foundation. Her team is responsible for grant and vendor disbursements, financial reporting, payroll, tax compliance, cash flow planning, employee expense administration and internal controls. Jennifer’s team manages the annual financial statement audits, tax returns, and general ledger accounting for the Foundation and the Trust as well as for the foundation’s international offices.
Prior to joining the foundation in 2006, Jennifer worked in various roles including public accounting where she specialized in tax exempt organizations and in local government managing the operations of the treasury and tax functions.
Jennifer received her MBA from Seattle University and her bachelor’s degree in accounting from Gonzaga University. She is also a CPA. Jennifer volunteers with local charities.
Bola Olusanya is the Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of the MacArthur Foundation. With over 25 years of experience, Bola has a track record of growing endowments while aligning investment portfolios with organizational values. He deploys an investment philosophy integrating long-term thinking, collaboration, and a commitment to advancing global challenges through responsible capital deployment.
As Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, Bola manages the Foundation’s nearly $9 billion endowment, with the objective of earning a 5 percent real return annually. This portfolio is the source of funds for the Foundation’s grantmaking activity and other organizational experiences.
Bola oversees MacArthur’s overall asset allocation and investment strategy, principally through the retention of outside investment managers. He will continue to pursue the Foundation’s goals of increasing assets under management with investment managers committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion while leading a 17-person investment Staff.
Prior to joining MacArthur, Bola served as Vice President and Chief Investment Officer at The Nature Conservancy, where he managed an investment portfolio of over $4 billion and built the organization’s first internal investment team, transforming the endowment into a global, mission-aligned portfolio.
Earlier in his career, Bola held senior roles at Key Private Bank, Vanderbilt University, Strategic Investment Group, and S&P Global, in each role applying innovative approaches to asset allocation, manager selection, and portfolio construction for large institutional portfolios.
Bola received an MBA in Finance from Emory University, a master’s in computer science from the University of Lagos, and a bachelor’s in computer science (First Class Honors) from the University of Ibadan.
Bola is a board member of The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF), serves on investment committees at the Cleveland Foundation and United World Colleges (UWC), and advises Giant Ventures, a London-based venture capital firm. He also guest lectures on investment management at Vanderbilt University’s Owen School of Business. He has published two poetry collections that reflect his global outlook.
Deborah Boedicker is a business strategy and brand consultant to OCIO firms, and active in philanthropy focused on rare disease, mentoring, and entrepreneurship. Formerly, she was managing director and board member at Strategic Investment Group. Prior to that she was managing director at UBS Global Asset Management (formerly Brinson Partners) and director/portfolio manager at Analytic/TSA Global Asset Management.
Ms. Boedicker serves as a board member of Mackenzie’s Mission and operating committee member of the Amyloidosis Speakers Bureau. Previously, she has served as benefit plan committee member of the American Red Cross, board chair of Mentorprize, and advisory board member of Northeastern University IDEA Venture Accelerator.
Mai-Anh Fox is the Foundation’s chief financial officer. She was previously the director of financial planning and budgeting. Prior to joining Ford, she worked in mergers and acquisition and private equity, specializing in media and technology. She was also the director at the Alliance for Downtown New York, where she managed a loan and grant portfolio program to help small businesses in Lower Manhattan recover following 9/11. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from New York University and an MBA from Yale. Mai-Anh serves on the board of Proteus Fund, a social justice not-for-profit, and is a Certified Financial Analyst.