Lehigh University

Nine award-winning C-suite investment officials from pensions, endowments, foundations and a health system share their experience and expertise.
Over his 40-year-career, the former CIO of Lehigh University and Pennsylvania SERS became a devotee of alternatives and portable alpha.
CIO Peter Gilbert finds a $1 billion endowment can exploit opportunities denied to bigger funds, such as his former employer, the Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System.
Peter Gilbert’s reputation for sophisticated fund management was well established when he traded 14 years at the helm of the $60 billion Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System for the CIO post at Lehigh University’s $1 billion endowment.