Carin-Isabel Knoop is the founder and executive director of the Harvard Business School Research and Case Writing Division.  This conversation was spurred by two things, one that I found out on the Business Breakdowns podcast last year that Harvard Business School Publishing is larger than Forbes, and two that I’ve also always been curious about how case studies are actually written.  Anyone who has done security or competitive analysis will appreciate the level of detail that goes into a case. This is similar to the great conversation I had last year with Paul Edelman, who has developed psychological tests to find talent for leading hedge funds.  I would encourage you to listen to that one if you haven’t, Paul is great at breaking down conceptual thinking. Cases are used to teach decision making and business reasoning for analysts, business owners, consultants and investors, but what are the decisions that go into the cases themselves and why are they such a good tool for teaching this mode of thought?  What I found was intriguing and in some ways pleasantly surprising, and Carin was great fun to talk to.  Please enjoy our discussion. Carin-Isabel Knoop is the Executive Director of the Harvard Business School Case Research and Writing Group which she began in 1995.  Previously she was a consultant at McKinsey and Price Waterhouse Coopers.  Carin has her bachelors summa cum laude in Government, Economics and International Relations from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Harvard Business school with honors.  She is also a very active writer on Medium and where she writes about creating better workplaces. https://carinisabelknoop.medium.com/

Scott Sperling is the Co-CEO of Thomas H. Lee Partners.  We had an excellent conversation about his time at Harvard Management Company under legendary figures like Walter Cabot and Jack Meyer, his thoughts on the evolution of private equity, the growth of THL, how the firm is structured, his top metrics and how to find new areas of growth.   Scott is Co-CEO and co-chair of the firm’s management committee.  Prior to joining Thomas H. Lee Partners, Scott was, for more than a decade, managing partner of the affiliate of Harvard Management Company that managed all alternative asset classes for Harvard University’s endowment fund. Before that he was a Senior Consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. Scott is involved with a number of charitable and non-profit organizations. He is Chairman of MassGeneralBrigham, the Parent of the Harvard teaching hospitals, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Hospital. He is Chairman Emeritus of the CitiCenter for Performing Arts and Wang Theater.   NOTE:  This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.  Anything said by the guests or host should not be construed as legal or investment advice.  Thanks for listening.   Joe Reilly is a family office consultant, and the host of the Private Capital Podcast as well as the Inheritance Podcast.  FOLLOW JOE: https://twitter.com/joereillyjr WEBSITE: https://www.circulus.co/ INHERITANCE PODCAST:   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-inheritance-podcast/id1644964   If you like this show, do me a favor and send it to someone you think would enjoy it.  Just copy the link into an email or text.  I appreciate it.   ©2024 Joe Reilly

Michael Tiedemann is a founding partner and chief executive officer of AlTi Tiedemann Global, a publicly traded $70 billion investment firm. He is also a member of the firm’s board of directors and chairman of the firm’s internal investment committee.  We talk about starting the business with his father, Carl Tiedemann, the former president of DLJ, spinning up a wealth manager from scratch after the dot-com collapse, the importance of having an operator mentality, finding great talent, and Mike’s thoughts on venture, private debt, growth in the wealth management space and being deliberate. Michael began his career working for Tiedemann Investment Group (TIG) as an emerging markets research analyst. In 1994, he joined the equity research group at Banco Garantia, one of Brazil’s leading investment banks, living in Brazil for two years. Later, Michael ran their equity sales and trading operations out of New York, where he worked closely with Garantia’s top-ranked hedge fund-of-fund group. In 1998, when Credit Suisse acquired Garantia, he remained there, heading up their sales trading efforts for Latin America, until he left to start Tiedemann Advisors in 2000. Michael has been a selected speaker at a number of financial and regulatory associations around the country. In 2012, the Henry Street Settlement honored Michael for his contribution to charitable causes, and most recently in 2017 Michael received the Impact Award for his contribution to fighting poverty by the River Fund of New York.  Michael received a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Ohio Wesleyan University.   If you like these discussions, please subscribe or leave a review. Please enjoy my excellent talk with Mike Tiedemann.   NOTE: This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Anything said by the guests or host should not be construed as legal or investment advice. Thanks for listening.   Joe Reilly is a family office consultant, and the host of the Private Capital Podcast as well as the Inheritance Podcast.  FOLLOW JOE: https://twitter.com/joereillyjr WEBSITE: https://www.circulus.co/ INHERITANCE PODCAST:   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-inheritance-podcast/id1644964   If you like this show, do me a favor and send it to someone you think would enjoy it.  Just copy the link into an email or text.  I appreciate it.   ©2024 Joe Reilly

Alex Chaloff is the CIO of Bernstein Private Wealth Management. We had a great conversation talking about his personal litmus test for a manager, what to do with lagging funds, the advantages of scale, and the importance of having a sleep coach. Please enjoy my talk with Alex Chaloff.   Alex Chaloff is the Chief Investment Officer of Bernstein Private Wealth Management. Before his current role, he served as head of Alternative Asset Strategies. Alex was also a Senior Investment Strategist and Co-head of Bernstein’s Private Client Investment Policy Group, the decision-making body for the private client business. The PCIPG provides asset allocation, investment, and risk management advice for high-net-worth clients, endowments, and foundations. Before joining Bernstein in 2005, he was a managing director at Wilshire Associates, serving on the firm’s investment committee. At Wilshire, Alex structured the investment programs of Fortune 500 companies and developed the portfolio construction for multiple mutual fund complexes, serving as Chief Financial Officer for several fund families. Prior to that, he worked in fund accounting operations at a global custodian in Boston. Alex earned a BA in government and politics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an MBA with a concentration in finance from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.   NOTE: This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Anything said by the guests or host should not be construed as legal or investment advice. Thanks for listening.   Joe Reilly is a family office consultant, and the host of the Private Capital Podcast as well as the Inheritance Podcast.  FOLLOW JOE: https://twitter.com/joereillyjr WEBSITE: https://www.circulus.co/ INHERITANCE PODCAST:   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-inheritance-podcast/id1644964   If you like this show, do me a favor and send it to someone you think would enjoy it.  Just copy the link into an email or text.  I appreciate it.   ©2024 Joe Reilly

Today we have Mark Hurley, who recently co-authored a white paper called Welcome to the Jungle: The Next Phase of the Evolution of the Wealth Management Industry. Mark has written several influential papers over the years, and makes some intriguing and provocative points. We go into the mechanics of the wealth management business, how to find talent, discuss the ten-year acquisition spree in the industry, and the challenges of a wealth management business which is transitioning from a club-like place to one that is far more competitive.   Mark is currently CEO of Digital Privacy and Protection, a cybersecurity company. He was the Chairman and CEO of Fiduciary Network, a well know firm that provided capital for internal transitions, acquisitions, and MBOs of Registered Investment Advisors. Prior to that he was CEO of Undiscovered Managers, a mutual fund company, and started out at Goldman Sachs. Mark was educated at the United States Military Academy at West Point and has an MBA from Stanford.   Digital Privacy and Protection:  https://www.dpripro.com   Welcome to the Jungle: The Next Phase of the Evolution of the Wealth Management Industry: https://www.dpripro.com/research/yhxohtca3dvhxbc69uh2xqhgi5ynen-jzsww   NOTE:  This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.  Anything said by the guests or host should not be construed as legal or investment advice.  Thanks for listening.   Joe Reilly is a family office consultant, and the host of the Private Capital Podcast as well as the Inheritance Podcast.  FOLLOW JOE: https://twitter.com/joereillyjr WEBSITE: https://www.circulus.co/ INHERITANCE PODCAST:   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-inheritance-podcast/id1644964   If you like this show, do me a favor and send it to someone you think would enjoy it.  Just copy the link into an email or text.  I appreciate it.   ©2024 Joe Reilly

Steffen Pauls is a serial entrepreneur with a long background in the private equity industry.  His career started at BCG; he started and sold a fintech company during the dot com era; worked at KKR when it was still a small firm and grew along with it; and then left to start his own company in 2016 called Moonfare - which is a private equity investing platform making top-tier funds available to retail and institutional investors at lower minimums.  Steffen got his bachelor’s degree from the University of Mannheim with high distinction and his PhD in Economics from the University of Trier. We talk about his exciting educational and entrepreneurial journey, what KKR was like when it all fit in one room, the challenges of starting a company and getting initial traction, the technological challenges of building a private equity platform, and what he thinks about the future of the space. Please enjoy my interview with Steffen Pauls. Moonfare:  https://www.moonfare.com/us Twitter:  https://twitter.com/steffenpauls Moonfare Deal Talk:  https://podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/deal-talk-interviews-with-private-equity-leaders/id1689571193 NOTE:  This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.  Anything said by the guests or host should not be construed as legal or investment advice.  Thanks for listening. Joe Reilly is a family office consultant, and the host of the Private Capital Podcast as well as the Inheritance Podcast.  FOLLOW JOE: https://twitter.com/joereillyjr WEBSITE: https://www.circulus.co/ INHERITANCE PODCAST:   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-inheritance-podcast/id1644964 If you like this show, do me a favor and send it to someone you think would enjoy it.  Just copy the link into an email or text.  I appreciate it. ©2024 Joe Reilly

Casey Whalen shares valuable lessons from David Swensen, focusing on alignment in investment programs, the importance of frameworks, private investments, and customized portfolios. The podcast delves into her impressive investing career, mentorship experiences, and strategic shifts in investment approaches, offering insights into navigating committee dynamics, managing relationships with investment managers, and generating alpha in investment strategies.

Today we are speaking to Ryan Eisenman, co-founder and CEO of Arch, a leading fintech startup that is a digital administrator for private investments.   I thought it would be great to catch up with Ryan to get a look under the hood of a rapidly growing B2B SaaS company tackling one of asset management’s persistent back office issues such as K-1s and capital calls, as well as a look at how their focus on product and customer experience can help you stand out in the burgeoning fintech space.  As someone who has personally struggled from the deluge of unstructured data in a family office, I am always interested in how technology can solve this ultimate of pain points in a family office or RIA, and Ryan and his team are on the cutting edge of applying new technology, including AI to this area.  We hear his founder story and how he and his co-founders Jason Trigg and Joel Stein have approached pricing, market fit, handling data, and all the different types of customers and their individual challenges.  Right after we recorded this interview, Arch closed a $20 million Series A led by Menlo Ventures, with Craft Ventures, Quiet Capital, Citi Ventures, and Focus Financial joining.  The group has over 200 customers managing over $60 Billion. Ryan Bio: Ryan Eisenman is the co-founder and CEO of Arch, a digital solution for managing private-market assets like private equity, venture capital, and real estate. What started as a solution for collecting K-1s is now used to automate portfolio management and analysis by over 200 institutional clients, private offices, and investment advisors,  including one of the three biggest US banks. Ryan is a Houston native, graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Human and Organizational Development, and lives in New York City, where Arch is based.  WEBSITE:  arch.co FOLLOW RYAN: https://twitter.com/Ryeisenman NOTE:  This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.  Anything said by the guests or host should not be construed as legal or investment advice.  Thanks for listening. Joe Reilly is a family office consultant, and the host of the Private Capital Podcast as well as the Inheritance Podcast.  FOLLOW JOE: https://twitter.com/joereillyjr WEBSITE: https://www.circulus.co/ INHERITANCE PODCAST:   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-inheritance-podcast/id1644964   If you like this show, send it to someone you think would enjoy it.  Just copy the link into an email or text.  I appreciate it. ©2023 Joe Reilly

Today we have Jon Hirtle, founder and executive chairman of Hirtle, Callaghan & Co, a $20 billion  OCIO firm.  I was especially interested to talk to Jon because he is a real process guy, and has been thinking deeply about managers and portfolios for over thirty years.  John trained recruits at Paris Island, worked at Goldman, and left with no clients to become a pioneer in what came to become the OCIO business.  We discuss prediction markets, what he learned from the Mellon family office, and his concept of looking for an “uninterrupted chain of logic.” Jon is a regular commentator on national media and is best known for his role in pioneering the outsourced CIO (OCIO) model for families and institutions. Prior to founding Hirtle Callaghan, Jon worked at Goldman Sachs advising family groups and institutions on investment strategy and securities selection. Previously, he served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps. He earned his B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from the Pennsylvania State University. Please enjoy my interview with Jon Hirtle. Full Bio: Founder and Executive Chairman of Hirtle, Callaghan & Co. In his role as Executive Chairman, Jon continues his intense focus on producing ever-better net outcomes for clients. Working closely with the Hirtle Callaghan Investment Strategy Group, he developed the firm’s investment philosophy which he distilled into four cornerstone principles. Jon appears regularly on national broadcast networks including CNBC, Fox Business, and Bloomberg Television. He is highly sought after for his commentary on investing and was dubbed the "Oracle of Outsource" by Pensions & Investments as Hirtle Callaghan is best known for his role in pioneering the outsourced CIO (OCIO) model for families and institutions. Prior to founding Hirtle Callaghan, Jon worked at Goldman Sachs advising family groups and institutions on investment strategy and securities selection. Previously, he served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps. He earned his B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from the Pennsylvania State University. Hirtle Callaghan & Co:  https://www.hirtlecallaghan.com NOTE:  This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.  Anything said by the guests or host should not be construed as legal or investment advice.  Thanks for listening.   Joe Reilly is a family office consultant, and the host of the Private Capital Podcast as well as the Inheritance Podcast.  FOLLOW JOE: https://twitter.com/joereillyjr WEBSITE: https://www.circulus.co/ INHERITANCE PODCAST:   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-inheritance-podcast/id1644964   If you like this show, do me a favor and send it to someone you think would enjoy it.  Just copy the link into an email or text.  I appreciate it.   ©2023 Joe Reilly

AI for Portfolio Insight Jan Szilagyi is the CEO and co-founder of Toggle AI, a generative AI startup that uses machine learning to turn institutional-grade data into insights for investors of all stripes. Szilagyi spent most of his career with Stanley Druckenmiller at Duquesne Capital. He was co-CIO of global macro at Lombard Odier and also managed portfolios at Fortress under Michael Novogratz.  Jan has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard, and BA and MA degrees in mathematics and economics from Yale. I was very eager to talk to Jan about his cutting-edge work of actually applying artificial intelligence to help portfolio managers and analysts.  When I first met Jan three years ago, he was already ahead of the curve in using advanced models to digest huge amounts of investment data and prices in a way that was useful and didn’t require data science training to use.  We talk about Jan’s experience at Duquesne and Fortress, the founding of Toggle AI, how to think about how AI is being applied to the financial world, hiring AI talent, and how to speed run a Ph.D.  Please enjoy my excellent conversation with Jan Szilagyi. NOTE:  This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.  Anything said by the guests or host should not be construed as legal or investment advice.  Thanks for listening. ToggleAI:  https://toggle.ai Joe Reilly is a family office consultant, and the host of the Private Capital Podcast as well as the Inheritance Podcast.  FOLLOW JOE: https://twitter.com/joereillyjr WEBSITE: https://www.circulus.co/ INHERITANCE PODCAST:   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-inheritance-podcast/id1644964 If you like this show, then do me a favor and send it to someone you think would enjoy it.  Just copy the link into an email or text.  I appreciate it.   ©2023 Joe Reilly