Key Takeaways
- • The Directors Guild of America-Producer Pension and Health Plans, which manages $4.7 billion, has hired Anouk van der Boor as its chief investment officer, effective July 1, 2024.
- • Van der Boor joins from the Rockefeller University Endowment, where she was a managing director for nearly two years before departing in January 2024.
- • She replaces Edgar Smith, who quietly left the organization earlier this year, and arrives roughly a year and a half after the plan hired its previous CIO.
- • Van der Boor brings 17 years at Cambridge Associates, including a partnership from 2018, with a focus on private markets.
- • DGA CEO Lisa Read cited van der Boor's private markets experience and manager network as key to new opportunities for the plans.
Summary
The Directors Guild of America, the labor organization that supports directors of film, television and other media, has named a new chief investment officer for its pension and health plans, just a year and a half after hiring its first CIO. The DGA-Producer Pension and Health Plans, which manages $4.7 billion, has hired Anouk van der Boor for the role, according to Institutional Investor. Van der Boor will officially join the guild on July 1 and replaces Edgar Smith, who quietly left the organization earlier this year.
Van der Boor comes from the Rockefeller University Endowment, where she served as a managing director for nearly two years before departing in January. Her prior career was largely at Cambridge Associates, where she spent 17 years working from both Singapore and Boston in the consulting firm's private markets department. She was named a partner in 2018 and left in 2022 for the Rockefeller position. Earlier in her career she worked at Merrill Lynch, the Parthenon Group, and the family office arm of Citizen's Energy Corp. She currently serves as a trustee of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
DGA CEO Lisa Read said in a statement that van der Boor is "a seasoned investor with a track record of delivering strong returns," adding that her "deep experience in private markets and extensive network of manager relationships will open new opportunities for our pension and health plans." Jay Roth, co-chair of the Finance Committee of the Board of Trustees, said the two had worked together on numerous investment opportunities in van der Boor's capacity as advisor to the plans' private investments portfolio, and praised her commitment to best-practice governance. Van der Boor said she looks forward to implementing an investment strategy that "generates attractive risk-adjusted returns while ensuring access to liquidity."
Van der Boor comes from the Rockefeller University Endowment, where she served as a managing director for nearly two years before departing in January. Her prior career was largely at Cambridge Associates, where she spent 17 years working from both Singapore and Boston in the consulting firm's private markets department. She was named a partner in 2018 and left in 2022 for the Rockefeller position. Earlier in her career she worked at Merrill Lynch, the Parthenon Group, and the family office arm of Citizen's Energy Corp. She currently serves as a trustee of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
DGA CEO Lisa Read said in a statement that van der Boor is "a seasoned investor with a track record of delivering strong returns," adding that her "deep experience in private markets and extensive network of manager relationships will open new opportunities for our pension and health plans." Jay Roth, co-chair of the Finance Committee of the Board of Trustees, said the two had worked together on numerous investment opportunities in van der Boor's capacity as advisor to the plans' private investments portfolio, and praised her commitment to best-practice governance. Van der Boor said she looks forward to implementing an investment strategy that "generates attractive risk-adjusted returns while ensuring access to liquidity."
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