Background

Ms. Casscells is Co-President and Chief Investment Officer of Aetos. Prior to co-founding Aetos in 2001, Ms. Casscells was Chief Investment Officer of the Stanford Management Company, where she was responsible for the investment of over $10 billion in endowment funds and other assets on behalf of Stanford University. Prior to assuming her position as CIO in 1998, she served as a Managing Director responsible for asset allocation and for the endowment’s absolute return investments. Before joining the Stanford Management Company, she was a Vice President in Goldman Sachs’ Fixed Income Division and an analyst at Morgan Stanley & Company.

Education

Ms. Casscells earned a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a Bachelor of Arts in British Studies, cum laude, from Yale University.

Other Affiliations and Achievements

Ms. Casscells has been an active volunteer, serving as a board member, finance and investment committee chair and fundraiser. At Stanford, she has served as a trustee of the Stanford GSB Trust and as coordinator of the LGBTQ alumni chapter. At Yale, she serves on the Dean’s Leadership Council for the School of Nursing where her priority has been financial aid for nursing students. She currently serves as an independent Director of certain American Century mutual funds and is a member of the Board of Directors of DAFgiving360 (formerly known as Schwab Charitable). She is also a trustee/board member of the San Francisco Opera, Grace Cathedral, the URI Foundation and the Endowments of St. Paul’s Episcopal. She serves in an off-board capacity on the finance committee of KQED Inc. and on the investment committee of Tower Hill School. She is also an advisor to the investment committee of the Murdock Charitable Trust. She has also taught a course on event-driven investing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and has collaborated on scholarly articles with Robert Arnott and Cliff Asness.

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