Jeff Feingold was portfolio manager of the Fidelity Magellan Fund, Fidelity’s flagship fund, from 2011-2019, where he oversaw the fund’s $17 billion of assets. He founded Hope & Comfort in 2011 in an effort to teach his two young children the importance of giving back to the community and to ensure that all people have access to basic and essential personal hygiene products. In addition to his professional experience, Jeff has participated in dozens of philanthropic and volunteer activities over the last 20 years, including teaching classes to Boston inner-city and youth on topics such as kindness and journalism. He also led hundreds of his co-workers at Fidelity Investments to help rebuild inner-city schools and organized numerous food and clothing drives for the homeless.

Milgrom is the Shirley and Leonard Ely professor of Humanities and Sciences in the department of economics and professor by courtesy at Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 2020 Milgrom received the Nobel Prize in Economics “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.” Milgrom taught at Northwestern University and Yale before returning to Stanford. He has made well-known contributions to many areas of economics, and was the main academic contributor to the original FCC spectrum auction design — the simultaneous ascending auction. This design has been copied and adapted for dozens of auctions of radio spectrum, electricity, and natural gas involving hundreds of billion dollars worldwide. Milgrom has advised Microsoft Networks, Google’s IPO, the Oregon Public Utilities Commission, and the Government of Mexico.

John O’Connor partnered with the leaders of Battery Ventures to establish BGA (Battery Global Advisors) in 2005. He directs the investment team and is responsible for decisions across a broad range of public and private markets. His investment knowledge spans global equity and credit markets, hedge funds, alternative investments, private equity, and real estate. John has developed a highly specialized expertise in tax, estate, and investment planning for families with exposure to concentrated carried interest positions. He has grown BGA from an internal team serving five families to a family office serving over 25 families around the globe. John previously advised clients on tax and investment matters while at RINET, a financial consulting firm. He volunteers on the boards of Hope and Comfort and Weston Little League, and he coaches youth athletics.

Alice A. Ruth, CEO of the Investment Office, oversees the DCIO and the management of the College’s endowment and other investments. Previously, she served as CIO for Willett Advisors, the investment adviser for former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Bloomberg Family Office and the Bloomberg Family Foundation. Prior to Willett, she was CIO for the $6 billion Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Prior to Moore, she spent 12 years at Montgomery Securities as a senior managing director and co-director of equity research. Alice started her career at Morgan Stanley as an economic analyst, focused primarily on Federal Reserve and monetary policy. She is a trustee of Deerfield Academy and of the U.S. Ski Team Foundation.

Michael A. Spence joined New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business as a professor of economics in September 2010. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. From 1990 to 1999, Professor Spence served as Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean of Stanford Business School. Prior to joining Stanford, he was the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard University, chairman of the economics department, and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Spence was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 and the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economics Association in 1981. Spence is a member of the board of the Stanford Management Company, General Mills, Siebel Systems, Nike, and Exult, and a number of private companies.