Jay Ripley is a Partner and Co-Head of Investments at Global Endowment Management – a full-service Outsourced Chief Investment Office (OCIO) that serves mission-driven institutions. In that role, he manages GEM’s investment team, alongside James Ferguson, and focuses on private and impact investments. One of the industry’s first OCIOs, GEM was founded in 2007 to provide the advantages of a major university investment program to a wider range of mission-driven institutions. Today, GEM is a leading endowment management platform with more than $12 billion of AUM. Since joining GEM in 2014, Jay led the build-out of GEM’s venture capital portfolio and designed GEM’s buyout strategy, including