Career Conversations Yale School of Management

A conversation with Lynn Eisenhart, deputy director of the Gates Foundation’s $2.5 billion Strategic Investment Fund. Over the past decade at the Gates Foundation, Lynn has also served as a financial services program officer and advisor to Melinda Gates. Before Gates, she served as the vice president and group product manager at Washington Mutual and the senior manager of corporate strategy at T-Mobile.
Lynn is interviewed by Neha Jain ’24.

A conversation with Andy Golden, president of the Princeton University Investment Company, known as Princo. Andy became the third president of Princo in January 1995. During his tenure, Princo’s endowment market value has grown from under $4 billion to nearly $40 billion. He previously worked as a senior associate in the Investments Office at Yale University. 
Andy is interviewed by Sharan Subramanian ’24.

A conversation with Josh Wright ’98, the executive director of Ideas42, a nonprofit with the mission of using behavioral science to design scalable solutions to some of society’s most difficult problems. As part of his current role, he helped establish and staff the federal social and behavioral science team during the Obama administration. Prior to Ideas42, he led the Office of Financial Education and Access at the United States Department of the Treasury. 
Josh is interviewed by Sharan Subramanian ’24.

A conversation with Alia Aziz ’14, a director at UBS Asset Management. Alia is an investment analyst on the U.S. large and mid-cap growth equity strategies team, as well as on the digital transformation equity strategy team, with coverage primarily on consumer sectors. Alia was the founding analyst at Spyglass Capital Management, a concentrated U.S. mid-cap long-only growth fund that launched in 2015. She started her career as the sole analyst at Edgewood Management, a concentrated U.S. large cap long-only growth fund. 
Alia is interviewed by Sharan Subramanian ’24.

A conversation with Graham Browne, founder and executive director of Forte Preparatory Academy Charter School in Queens, New York. Prior to attending SOM, Graham was a consultant at the Bridgespan Group.
Graham was interviewed by Omolegho Udugbezi ’23. 

Guy Guyadeen got a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley in 2001 and an MBA from the Yale School of Management in 2011. After graduating from Yale, Guy worked in investment banking at JP Morgan and in product management at various tech companies, including Google, Tapcart, and the video-streaming platform Quibi. Currently, he is a senior product manager at Google on the Android team and a part-time lecturer at UCLA.
Guy was interviewed by Lisa Sternik ’22.