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The Cayuga Fund Speakers

The Parker Center has hosted many luminaries in the field of investment management.

These have included Seth Klarman, James Chanos, Michael Mauboussin, and Harlan Korenvaes, among many others.  Practitioners play an important role in educating future investment professionals and we are grateful to our visitors for lending their time and expertise to Cornell students.

Spring 2023

  • Heather Young, CFA, Vice President, Strategist, Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P.
  • Matthew Torpey, CFA, Vice President / Senior Credit Analyst, OppenheimerFunds

Fall 2022

  • Hannah Herold, Director of ESG, American Century Investments
  • Di Wu ’09, CFA, Head of Execution Services, Schonfeld
  • Paul Stringer, Managing Director/Chief Investment Officer of Equities, Prio Wealth
  • Maureen Boudrow, Fidelity Investments

Spring 2022

  • Matthew Torpey, CFA, Vice President / Senior Credit Analyst, Oppenheimer Funds

Fall 2021

  • Brian Withka, Relationship Manager, CapIQ
  • Susan Kendrick,  Librarian, Johnson Graduate School of Management
  • Shigeki Makino, Former Director of Equity Research: What research director wants from analysts
  • Jeff Kerrigan, Portfolio Manager, Century Capital
  • Yolanda Taylor, ESG Integration Manager at Putnam Investments
  • Di Wu, ’09, Head of Execution Research, Schonfeld
  • Emily Mitchell, Academic Sales Specialist, FactSet
  • Joel Tillinghast, Fund Manager, Fidelity Investments
  • Al Edwards, Cayuga Ventures Fund Managing Partner and former CIO at Cornell Endowment
  • Dragana Cvijanovic, Associate Professor of Applied Economics and Policy, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
  • Paul Stringer, Equity CIO, Prio Wealth
  • Rich Thompson, Retired Fund Manager
  • Matthew Torpey, CFA, Vice President / Senior Credit Analyst, OppenheimerFunds
  • Heather Young, CFA, Vice President, Strategist, Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P.
  • Dave Russekoff, Chief Investment Officer, Smith Cove Capital

Spring 2021

  • Heather Young, CFA, Vice President, Strategist, Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P.
  • Matthew Torpey, CFA, Vice President / Senior Credit Analyst, OppenheimerFunds

Fall 2020

  • Erica Moffett, Managing Director and Associate Director of Research, Oppenheimer & Co
  • Paul Stringer, Equity CIO, Prio Wealth
  • Shigeki Makino, Former Director of Equity Research: What research director wants from analysts
  • AJ Edwards, Cayuga Ventures Fund Managing Partner and former CIO, Cornell Endowment
  • Di Wu, ’09, Head of Execution Research, Schonfeld
  • Joel Tillinghast, Fund Manager, Fidelity Investments
  • Rich Thompson, Retired Fund Manager
  • Jeff Kerrigan, CFA, Portfolio Manager, Century Capital Management
  • Yolanda Taylor, ESG Integration Manager at Putnam Investments

Spring 2020

  • John Tobin, Professor of Practice of Corporate Sustainability, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, Cornell University
  • Heather Young, CFA, Vice President, Strategist, Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P.
  • Matthew Torpey, CFA, Vice President / Senior Credit Analyst, Oppenheimer Funds