How can leaders in asset management and strategic asset allocators help improve the collective intelligence at their organizations by leveraging the power of diversity? 

In our latest episode of the Improving Alpha podcast, Michael Oliver Weinberg speaks with Gitanjali Swamy, PH.D., Senior Legislative and Policy Advisor, Massachusetts State Senate, Managing Partner, IoTask on how leaders approach the more social aspects of ESG.

Gitanjali further discusses: 

• How her early educational career helped shape her outlook on diversity across various startups and businesses
  
• What can interfere with a truly diverse collective intelligence
  
• How to improve diversity and lead to better decision making
  
• What is the 3-stage process that can help the asset community build a better collective for diversity
  
• How one’s customer base and allocators may improve their collective intelligence and enable better outcomes
  
• And more
  

Connect with Gitanjali Swamy:

• LinkedIn: Gitanjali Swamy
  

About Our Guest:

As an entrepreneur, Dr. Swamy has founded, grown, or served as a board director in innovation enterprises and new investment funds for clients like MIT Corp and Fabindia. As a professional, she has led the investment sourcing, structuring, and transaction of seed to over a billion USD deals, in her investment or management consultant roles at The Carlyle Group Booz Allen & Hamilton, and IoTask, where she is Managing Partner. Dr. Swamy has also served in line-management roles at The Mathworks and Mentor Graphics. She is also a representative to the EQUALS Global Partnership (a Joint Venture of the ITU, GSMA, UNU, UN Women). . She has also served as faculty at Harvard and Columbia University, where she taught classes in finance and policy

Connect with Michael Oliver Weinberg: 

• Michael Oliver Weinberg
  
• Vidrio
  

About Our Host:

For three decades Michael has invested directly at the security level and indirectly as an asset allocator in traditional and alternative asset classes. Most recently he was a Managing Director, Head of Alternative Alpha, on the Investment Committee and a board member at APG, a Dutch pension provider. Previously he was the Chief Investment Officer at MOV37 and Protege Partners. Michael is also an Adjunct Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia Business School, where he teaches Institutional Investing, an advanced MBA course that he created.

Michael is a published author, having written for The New York Times, international investment books and other publications. Michael has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNBC, Bloomberg and Reuters. He is a frequent panelist, moderator and lecturer for investment banks, institutional and family office organizations and business schools. 

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