Georgetown University has appointed Michael Barry as CIO, Pensions & Investments reports. Barry, who will be responsible for overseeing the university’s $1 billion endowment fund, will join in June 2011.

He will succeed Larry Kochard, who left to become CEO of University of Virginia Investment Management, which manages the university’s $4.6 billion endowment assets. Previously, Barry was CIO of the $950 million University System of Maryland, which manages investment of endowment and operating funds for 11 member universities and eight non-profit institutions in the state.

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