Alt Fund Investment Series: A Discussion with Kane Brenan
Speakers
Kane Brenan
CEO
TIFF Investment Management
Kane Brenan joined TIFF in 2020 and serves as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Brenan has responsibility for the organization’s overall activities. He is a member of TIFF’s Investment Committee. Prior to joining TIFF, Mr. Brenan spent over 20 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was most recently a Partner, Global Head, and Co-CIO of the Global Portfolio Solutions (GPS) group where he worked with some of Goldman’s largest pension and endowment clients in an outsourced chief investment officer capacity. He holds a BA from Boston College and a combined JD/MBA from Georgetown University. Mr. Brenan serves on several nonprofit boards including Beyond Celiac, Bryn Mawr Hospital Foundation, and Holy Child School at Rosemont.
Gaurav Patankar
Alternative Investments
Bloomberg Intelligence
Gaurav Patankar is an investment and fintech executive with a track record of leading and transforming investment organizations, portfolios and products building important institutional relationships globally. Over his 22-year career, Gaurav has invested and allocated capital globally and across multiple asset classes including equities, alternatives, fixed income, infrastructure and real/operating assets. Presently, he serves as the Head of Strategy - Alternatives & OCIO Solutions at Bloomberg Intelligence with a keen focus on building and triangulating Bloomberg’s value proposition within pensions, endowments, foundations, family offices and asset managers. Gaurav previously served as the OCIO of a multi-billion family office –Atharva A&C. Prior to his OCIO journey, Gaurav was a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Mellon Investment Management where he managed the global emerging markets research and portfolio teams across multiple strategies. He also led key strategic dialogues with UHNW, SWF and Endowment & Foundation clients as the thought leader on emerging markets. Prior to Mellon, Gaurav was a Portfolio manager of Global absolute-return strategies at the Lockheed Martin Investment Management Co (Pension Plan) where he successfully turned around the firm’s alternative portfolio and built out the firm’s managed account platform. Before that, he served as a Vice President and Sector Head of Emerging-Markets and Global Financials at Millennium Management, LLC, as an equity research analyst at SuNova Capital and Citigroup Investment Research covering large and mid-cap banks. Prior to his investment career, Gaurav was a Corporate Strategist at M&T Bank and an entrepreneur in India where he co-founded Information Interface India Ltd (promoter of Niyogin Fintech Limited BSE: NIYOGIN_IN). In 2016, Gaurav led prominent investors to reverse merge the firm with a listed NBFC working closely with key stakeholders and regulators to create India’s first listed fintech company. Gaurav helped put together a high quality board, institutional investors and a top notch management team.