SARAH SAMUELS, CFA, CAIA, is an investor with twenty years of experience investing trillions of dollars of institutional capital across private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, and equity/credit investments. Sarah began her investment career as an Administrative Assistant and worked her way to Partner. Sarah has held positions as a Quantitative Portfolio Manager, as Deputy Chief Investment Officer for a $100 billion pension fund, and as Managing Director investing a college endowment. Today, Sarah oversees the investment of $1.5 trillion in assets. She has been recognized for her contributions to the investment industry with  awards as Most Influential Women in Institutional Investing, Advisor of the Year, Most Wanted Investment Allocator, University Endowment Rising Star, Hedge Fund Rising Star, Forty Under Forty, and Women of FIRE. Sarah is passionate about improving diversity in the investment industry through personally providing angel capital to diverse entrepreneurs, mentoring underrepresented groups, and nonprofit work with Girls Who Invest, Private Equity Women Investor Network, and CFA Society Boston. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designations. Sarah earned an MBA from Boston University and a BA in German and Business from the University of New Hampshire. Sarah resides in Reading, Massachusetts, with her daughters Holland and London and her husband Frank Butterworth.