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Meredith Jenkins is the Chief Investment Officer of Trinity Wall Street, where she oversees $5.5 billion of the church\\u2019s endowment and real estate assets.\\xa0 Before taking the helm as Trinity\\u2019s first CIO, she was the co-CIO of Carnegie Corporation of New York, Andrew Carnegie\\u2019s foundation, from 2011 to 2016. She joined Carnegie in 1999 as its first investment associate and was an integral part of the build-out of the Corporation\\u2019s investment capability under its first CIO.\\xa0 During the period, Meredith spent four years in Asia as the Corporation\\u2019s special representative focusing on opportunities in China, Japan, India, Southeast Asia, and Australia.

Meredith started her career at Goldman Sachs in investment banking, Sanford Bernstein in research, and Cambridge Associates in consulting before attending Harvard Business School. She currently sits on the Investment Committee of the Wenner Gren Foundation and the Board of Directors of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company.

Our conversation starts with Meredith\\u2019s early career lessons and discusses alignment of interest, standing by managers in difficult times, markers of success, manager research in Asia, the co-CIO structure at Carnegie, and governance in her new challenge of starting an investment office from scratch. Fun loving and smart as a tack, Meredith offers pearls of wisdom through our conversation.

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