Shri. Srinivas Pulavarti

Srinivas Pulavarti joined Emory Investment Management as the Chief Investment Officer in 2018. From 2012-2018, Pulavarti was the President and CIO of UCLA Investment Company in Los Angeles, managing approximately $2.3 billion for UCLA Foundation and its affiliate organizations. Prior to UCLA, Pulavarti served roughly 7 years as President and CIO of Spider Management Company, an asset management affiliate of the University of Richmond. While there, he conceived and built the first successful outsourced CIO model in a university environment.

Totaling nearly 25 years of investment experience in managing assets for endowments, foundations, and pension funds in the U.S., Pulavarti also served as director and head of global investment strategy for Citigroup Pension Investments in New York, as director of investments at Johns Hopkins University, as portfolio manager and manager of investments at Lockheed Martin Investment Management Company, and as a senior fixed income and sovereign research analyst at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry from Bangalore University in India, and a Master of Science degree in Applied Economics from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.