NOTE: If you’d like to connect but we haven’t met (at all or recently), I’d appreciate a short note in your request. SUMMARY:Investor and non-profit advisory board member with over a decade of experience managing multi-asset portfolios at both a world-class buy-side investment firm and a $10 BN+ endowment.Trusted advisor to a global network of peers and investors.“Investing is investing” with extensive experience across both public and private markets in investment diligence and monitoring, legal negotiations and structuring, sourcing, underwriting and monitoring of investments.Covered, sourced or traveled to diligence investment opportunities on six continents across all asset classes:• Public markets including, long only, hedge funds (long/short, credit, relative value, insurance linked, global macro) and fixed income.• Private markets including venture capital, buyout, growth equity and real estate.• Directs and co-investments.Advocate for the arts and diversity, equity, inclusion.FULL BIO:Michael Billings is an investor and non profit advisory board member.Previously, Billings was an Investment Manager at Vanderbilt University’s Office of Investments. He served as a generalist where he contributed to both the public and private portfolios.Prior to Vanderbilt, Mr. Billings was an Analyst at First Pacific Advisors, L.L.C. (FPA) for the FPA Multi-Advisor Funds. Before joining FPA, he was a consulting Investment Analyst at Dougan & Associates, a single-family office with legacy investments in energy and technology, media and telecommunications. He began his professional career at The Clinton Foundation, which was founded by The Honorable William J. Clinton, after working as a production assistant on Season 1 of The Apprentice, a reality television program created by President Donald J. Trump and Mark Burnett. During the Obama/Biden administration he served in a volunteer capacity doing trip advance for then Vice President Biden.Billings earned a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a M.S. in Finance from the University of Utah. He was selected as a member of the inaugural Ron Brown scholar program class and graduated from Rowland Hall St. Mark’s high school which he attended on a full merit scholarship as a David Cumming Scholar.He enjoys skiing at Alta/Snowbird (and Deer Valley or Snowbasin), hiking, paddle boarding and travel (having visited 5 continents, 21 countries and 40 U.S. states).