Brooke Jones had to hit the ground running when she joined Bryn Mawr College as its Chief Investment Officer 18 months ago, according to a staff report from Bryn Mawr College News.

“The Investment Office was established during COVID, which presented no small amount of challenge,” said Jones. “I expected we might encounter a market correction early on in our investing lives and felt a keen sense of urgency to re-underwrite our portfolio of managers as quickly as we could.”

To achieve this, her team has been focusing on what the college owns and if each relationship fits its high underwriting bar as well as Bryn Mawr’s values system.

Jones and her team also had to build an entire new department in that period.

“In the first 18 months, I’ve hired three senior team members,” she said.

With her small team, she also found new office space, chose and implemented two enterprise systems, established the department’s governance structure and investment philosophy and processes, established the HR processes and procedures unique to an investment staff, and repositioned the college’s portfolio to improve its alpha content.

Read more about Bryn Mawr College’s New CIO Brooke Jones in Bryn Mawr College News.