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Oliver Bardon joined TIFF in 2017 and serves as Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Construction and Risk, focusing on risk management and portfolio construction across the firm’s investment solutions. In this role he is tasked with combining TIFF’s best equity and diversifying strategies with risk-managing fixed income and hedging positions to create portfolios tailored to meet the risk, return and liquidity profiles suited to each individual TIFF client. He is a member of TIFF’s Investment Committee.
Prior to joining TIFF, Oliver served as a portfolio manager and as Head of Quantitative Analysis and Risk Management at Cambridge Place Investment Management. His responsibilities included assessing risk and managing hedging positions for portfolios of asset-backed securities. Oliver has also worked at Bracebridge Capital, where he analyzed structured finance and other fixed income investments, and at The Boston Consulting Group, where he was a manager in the financial services practice.
Oliver began his career as a physicist, conducting research at the US Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, as well as at the Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing.
With a BA in physics from the University of Virginia and a doctorate in Experimental Particle Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oliver’s combination of expertise in investment management and physics gives him a highly analytical perspective on investing. He volunteers his time as a director of the Brookline High School Innovation Fund, where he serves on the Finance Committee.
Chris Anderson joined TIFF in 2015 as a senior member of the Private Markets group. He helps manage all aspects of the private equity and venture capital portfolios, focusing globally on origination of primary fund investments, PE direct investments alongside funds and independent sponsors, and secondary investments. Chris also collaborates with TIFF’s Client Service team helping investors with their efforts to construct a high quality, long-term private markets portfolio.
As a longtime supporter of education and entrepreneurship, Chris serves on the Investment Committee for the Babson College endowment and is Chair of the college’s Private Equity Committee.
Chris began his career as an engineer after graduating from the United States Merchant Marine Academy, where he also raced on the intercollegiate sailing team and was commissioned as an officer in the US Naval Reserve. Chris pursued an MBA at Babson College, after which he started his private equity career with SVG Advisers, a global private equity fund of funds.
Chris later joined Alcatel-Lucent Investment Management Corporation, which oversees $30 billion in pension assets, where he spent six years managing the private equity portfolio prior to joining TIFF.
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