“Harisha Koneru Haigh, Managing Director, Private Investments & Real Assets at the Northwestern University Investment Office, is leading the monthly Open House series for WAVE. The series is open to junior members (women considering a career in alternative investments or who are early in their careers), with a goal to help facilitate networking and share information.

On Friday May 3, Harisha will be joined by Jocelyn Doe, General Partner, Builder VC, for a discussion on venture capital. The session will be offered from 10:00 am – 11:00 am ET. We welcome questions in advance on the Zoom registration form.

On a separate Friday in each month, Harisha will offer six 10-minute slots between 10:00 am and 11:00 am ET for more focused interaction, on a first come, first serve basis. Appointments for the May 17 slots can be made by contacting Danielle Fraser, Coordinator, at danielle.fraser@women-wave.org

Speaker Bios:

Harisha Haigh manages the Private Investments and Real Assets portfolios for Northwestern University’s $13 billion endowment. Ms. Haigh is responsible for all aspects of these portfolios, including venture capital, buyouts, real estate, and natural resources investments.

Prior to joining Northwestern University in 2005, Ms. Haigh was a Principal at PPM America Capital Partners, LLC, the U.S. private equity manager for Prudential plc and Jackson National Life Insurance Account. She also worked in London for Silverfleet, a PPM affiliate, focusing on European middle market buyout transactions. She began her career in the investment banking department of ABN AMRO, concentrating on mergers and acquisitions of small and middle market companies.

Ms. Haigh received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. Ms. Haigh is a CFA charterholder.

Jocelyn Doe is a General Partner at Builders VC, a Series A venture capital firm that modernizes trillion dollar critical industries – real assets, industrials, agriculture, and health. At Builders, she focuses primarily on Modern Money and heads special situation investments and capital formation. Jocelyn has spent her entire career on Wall Street and Silicon Valley through multiple cycles. She is an early investor in SoFi (digital student loan marketplace), Figure (blockchain for banks), Pie (digital VAT refund), and Nowsta (flex labor marketplace). Recent $B+ exits include SoFi and Volta.

Before joining Builders VC, Jocelyn was a senior investment banker at Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers. She has a global network, having lived and worked in Hong Kong, London, New York and Silicon Valley. Her Board roles include Fidelity International, Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund, and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Jocelyn is a graduate of Stanford University and The Anderson School of Management at UCLA.”

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Note: This is a career-related event (not hosted by MCS) shared because it is open to Harvard students. 

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