Gina Sanchez

Ms. Sanchez serves a Trustee of the Los Angeles County Employee Retirement Association (LACERA) Board of Investment where she serves as Chairwoman. She is also a member of the Board of Directors for Cedars Sinai Hospital, where she serves on the Executive Committee.

She also serves as a member of the Investor Advisory Group to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), a nonprofit corporation established by Congress to oversee the audits of public companies, where she is Chair of the Technology and Innovation Sub-Committee. Finally, she serves as an Advisory Board Member to the UCLA Masters of Financial Engineering Program and Applied Real Intelligence (ARI) Venture Debt Opportunities Fund.

In her day job, she is the Chief Executive Officer of Chantico Global, a global investment consultancy, and Chantico Technology, an investment technology software publisher.

 Previously, Ms. Sanchez was the Director of Equity and Asset Allocation for Roubini Global Economics. In addition, Ms. Sanchez spent four years as an institutional asset manager, serving at the California Endowment, a US$3 billion Los Angeles-based foundation, as managing director of public investments and at the Ford Foundation, a US$10 billion New York-based foundation, as director of public investments. In both roles, she was responsible for making asset allocation and manager selection recommendations for all external public managers, including both total return and absolute return strategies.

Ms. Sanchez spent over eleven years on the asset management and banking side. She was a portfolio manager and strategist for eight years at American Century Investment Management in Mountain View, Calif. where she ran over $6.5 billion in AUM. She also worked in emerging markets research at JPMorgan in New York.

She is a contributor for CNBC and was a recipient of Institutional Investor's 2009 Foundations and Endowments Rising Stars Award.  She holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard University and a master's in international policy studies from Stanford University.