The Yale School of Management has named Erin Bellissimo, a senior business executive with experience in both higher education leadership and the investment management industry, as the inaugural executive director of the Swensen Asset Management Institute.
The Swensen Asset Management Institute was launched in 2023 and named in honor of David Swensen, who served as the head of the Yale endowment from 1985 to 2021. In all of its activities, the center aims to build on Swensen’s legacy of investment excellence and mentorship, guided by a set of values, scientific rigor, ethics, and purpose.
Kerwin K. Charles, the Indra K. Nooyi Dean and Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Economics, Policy, and Management, welcomed Bellissimo to the school. “The Swensen Institute is an essential contribution to SOM’s mission to educate leaders for business and society,” he said. “Our careful search for its inaugural executive director included many excellent candidates, with a clear first choice of Bellissimo. Her depth of experiences and achievements in investment management and higher education make her extraordinarily well-fitted to this role. I know that I share the sentiment of the faculty who will work closely with her when I say that we could not be more thrilled for her to join SOM.”
Bellissimo’s career has spanned roles in the private sector, higher education, and nonprofit organizations. She has worked in strategic leadership roles at universities, including most recently as the managing director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Global Investing. She also founded the Heilbrunn Center, a value-investing program at Columbia Business School, and serves on the board of the Gabelli Center for Security Analysis at Fordham University. Bellissimo began her career in the private sector as a credit analyst at JP Morgan and later co-founded both a hedge fund and a multi-family office, where she directed business development, marketing, and human capital management. She is also a founding board member of Girls Who Invest, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the number of women in portfolio management and executive leadership in the asset management industry.
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