Taffi Ayodele joined the Bureau of Asset Management as the Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Emerging Managers in October of 2022 and now serves as Head of Diverse and Emerging Manager Strategy. In this role, she is a voting member of the investment committee and responsible for ensuring that the Bureau creates opportunities for emerging, diverse and women owned investment firms. Internally, Mrs. Ayodele focuses on increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion within BAM and ensuring equity and culture. In addition, she is responsible for the Bureau’s annual Diverse and Emerging Manager Conference and MWBE report. 

Prior to BAM, Mrs. Ayodele was a Principal for Harpia Asset Management focused on distressed real estate in New York City. Before Harpia, she was CEO of tech fashion brand, Thandos. Prior to Thandos, Mrs. Ayodele held numerous roles including Principle, TW Advisory focusing on minority businesses looking to securing government contracts and sourcing business capital and Director, DASNY, which is the second largest municipal bond issuer in the country.  

Mrs. Ayodele received her Bachelor’s in Economics from New York University and her MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, & Business.  

Rebecca Carland joined Knight Foundation in 2025 and serves as Chief Investment Officer.  Prior to joining Knight, Rebecca spent fifteen years overseeing assets for prominent U.S. and international families and foundations. Most recently, she served as Chief Investment Officer at Builders Vision, a private family office and impact investment platform. Rebecca also held senior investment and advisory roles at Walton Enterprises, Cambridge Associates, and Goldman Sachs. She started her career with the U.S. Department of Justice, supporting international rule-of-law programs and antitrust matters.  Rebecca currently serves on the Investment Committees of the Obama Foundation and ImpactAssets.  She earned an MBA from the University of Virginia and a BA in international relations from Tufts University. 

Michael Dymond is a Senior Portfolio Manager in the Global Private Equity team of APG US Asset Management Inc, based in New York.

As a senior member of APG’s private equity team, Mr. Dymond focuses principally on leading primary investments in private equity funds in the US and Europe. His role encompasses management of the global private equity portfolio in addition to manager selection, due diligence and monitoring of investments. He serves on numerous private equity fund advisory boards.

Prior to joining APG, Michael was a Senior Investment Manager in the private markets group at USS Investment Management in London. Michael was also a member of the private market’s investment
committee for USS.

Prior to USS, Michael was a member of the private funds group at Pinebridge Investments in London. Before
that, Michael worked at BNP Paribas Fortis Bank in Brussels as a member of the global private equity team.

Toru Masudais CEO of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment Co., LTD., and Board of Directors of Sumitomo
Mitsui Trust (Hong Kong) Limited. He has over 20 years of experience in the private equity
industry and has been deeply involved in all phases of the firm’s business development
regarding Private Equity since 2000. Today, He directs the group’s PE/Infrastructure strategy,
investment decisions, and client relationships, in addition to overseeing the group’s continued
expansion into new product areas in the asset management business. Before he engaged in PE
Business, he was a professional at the merger and acquisition advisory team in Tokyo and
London. He graduated from Osaka University, Faculty of Economics in 1988 and joined The
Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co.

Patrick McGowan is a Managing Director at Sanctuary Wealth Group, serving as the Head of Alternative Investments and Head of Manager Research. In this role, he spearheads a team responsible for all Alternative Investment activities, including the Firm’s private equity, private credit, real asset, and hedge fund investing strategies, as well as the traditional Investment Research Focus List. He is a member of the Sanctuary Asset Management Investment Council, which plays a pivotal role in constructing the Firm’s global economic and capital market views and leads the Alternative Investment Committee. 

Before joining Sanctuary, Mr. McGowan held a senior leadership position at the GP-stakes arm of Azimut Group (BIT: AZM), one of the largest independent wealth management companies in Europe; Invesco Private Capital (NYSE: IVZ), where he worked on investments for early-stage venture capital funds; the Carlyle Group, in the private credit joint venture OC Private Capital (TAKIX). He started his career at OppenheimerFunds.  

Mr. McGowan serves on the Executive Committee and is a board member at the Institute for Portfolio Alternatives (ipa.com). He also serves on the Board of Unifi CAIA.  

Patrick earned his Bachelors of Science in Psychological Sciences from Vanderbilt University and completed the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate Business School accelerator MBA. He holds his FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses. 

Treasurer Erick Russell was sworn in as Connecticut’s 84th State Treasurer on January 4, 2023. He is currently serving his first term.  

As Treasurer, he administers Connecticut’s pension funds, oversees the state’s debt and cash management, collects and returns unclaimed property, and manages the Connecticut Higher Education Trust (CHET), a 529 plan that helps students and families save for higher education. One of the premier accomplishments of his first term has been the funding and launching of the nation’s first statewide Baby Bonds initiative.  

Treasurer Russell previously worked for the Connecticut law firm of Pullman & Comley, where he was a partner in the firm’s Public and Private Finance Group. He represented towns, cities, and the state in financing infrastructure projects, managing debt, and restructuring pension obligations. In that work, he often interfaced directly with the Office of the Treasurer, gaining firsthand insight into how the agency operates and its potential to shape the financial future of Connecticut. 

Born and raised in New Haven, he was the first in his family to graduate college, earning a bachelor’s degree from the University of New Haven and a law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law.  

Treasurer Russell continues to advocate for people traditionally left out of the political process and denied economic opportunity. He has embraced the role of mentor, particularly for young Black and LGBTQ people. In 2022, he became the first Black out LGBTQ person in American history to be elected to statewide office. 

Miguel Silva is an Investment Manager within the Sustainable Investments team at CalPERS,
where he leads strategy, oversight, and engagement for the organization’s emerging manager platforms across private markets. His responsibilities include sourcing and leading due diligence on new fund and co-investment opportunities and overseeing performance across intermediated emerging manager strategies in Private Equity. He works closely with asset class leadership, external advisors, and investment managers to support disciplined capital deployment aligned with long-term beneficiary outcomes.

Miguel began his investment career in 2002 and has experience spanning institutional allocation, private market sponsorship, financial advisory, and commercial brokerage. Earlier in his career, he served as a Managing Member of real estate partnerships, raising capital and executing value-add investment strategies in Northern California. He also worked as a financial consultant and as a commercial brokerage professional advising on acquisitions and dispositions. This cross-platform experience across LP, GP, advisory, and transactional roles informs his approach to manager evaluation, risk assessment, and capital formation.

A first-generation Portuguese American, Miguel is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish. He earned dual Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of California, Davis.

Monte Tarbox was appointed in January 2026 by New York City Comptroller Mark Levine as Interim Chief Investment Officer for the Comptroller’s Office’s Bureau of Asset Management (BAM). In April 2026, Comptroller Levine appointed Tarbox to the position permanently. In this role, Mr. Tarbox is responsible for leading BAM and spearheading Comptroller Levine’s responsibilities as investment advisor and custodian, overseeing the $300 billion investment portfolio of the city’s five public pension systems during the ongoing search for a permanent CIO. 

Mr. Tarbox was from 2013 to 2023 the Executive Director, Investments for the National Electrical Benefit Fund (NEBF) which provides pension benefits to IBEW members and the electrical industry nation-wide. Mr. Tarbox has over 27 years of experience as an investment officer and advisor serving multi-employer pension funds and other institutional investors in the United States and Australia. 

Prior to joining NEBF, Mr. Tarbox was CIO of the IAM National Pension Fund in Washington. Previous experience included five years with IFM Investors, a global investment firm that is wholly owned by over 30 Australian superannuation (pension) funds. He was responsible for working with North American institutional clients in the IFM Global Infrastructure Fund. He has held senior positions with investment consulting firms in Chicago, Washington, and Melbourne, Australia. During his consulting career, Mr. Tarbox did extensive work in capital markets research, asset allocation, investment policy, manager structure and research, brokerage analysis, corporate governance and performance evaluation. He also spent two years as the Executive Director of the AFL-CIO Center for Working Capital where he developed a trustee training and education program and created a trustee curriculum on fiduciary duty and investment responsibilities. 

Mr. Tarbox has a BA from Carleton College (Magna cum laude) and an MBA from the University of Chicago with a specialization in finance. He also holds the Certified Employee Benefits Specialist designation awarded by the International Foundation of Employee Benefits Plans and Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He served for 16 years as a Board Member on the Board of Investments for the Montgomery County Public Schools Retirement System in Rockville, MD. Since 2018, he has served as a Public Advisor to and member of the Investment Committee of the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System in Baltimore, MD. 

Anastasia Titarchuk is the Chief Investment Officer for New York State’s Common Retirement 

Fund.  As of March 31, 2026, the value of the Fund was $295.4 billion.  Under the direction of State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, Titarchuk is responsible for developing and implementing investment strategies to ensure that the Fund remains one of the best-funded and best-managed public pension plans in the country.  The Fund holds assets in trust for more than one million employees and retirees from the state and local authorities. 

Anastasia is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets, and the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee (TBAC). 

Anastasia was born in Moscow and moved to the U.S. as a teenager.  She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Yale University with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics.