Kevin has been a member of the Investment Office of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for nearly two decades and serves as its Manager of Quantitative Analysis and Risk Management. The MacArthur Foundation is one of the country's largest philanthropies - over its 42-year history, it has awarded more than $7.3 billion to nearly 10,000 organizations and creative individuals around the world and at home.
Kevin’s responsibilities range across all of the Foundation’s investment strategies, with particular focus on portfolio design as well as on asset class and manager-level attribution and risk budgeting, due-diligence, and operations. He also has significant experience in investment policy definition and implementation.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Kevin was Manager of Investment Analysis at the Chicago-based investment-consulting firm of Richards & Tierney (R&T). Before this, he served as a tax consultant with expertise in the structure of multi-generation estate planning strategies, such as family limited partnerships and charitable trusts, at Arthur Andersen and at the Ayco Company (now a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs).
Kevin earned his Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago, with concentrations in accounting, economics, finance, and international business. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, and majored in economics and finance. He is a CFA charterholder.