Carol B. Einiger Appointed Vice President for Investments

The Rockefeller University has appointed Carol B. Einiger as vice president for investments. In her new position, Einiger will work with the university board of trustees’ finance committee and have responsibility for overseeing and implementing the investment strategy for the university’s endowment.

Einiger joins the university following four years at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, where she served a vice president and chief financial officer and as acting president.

Einiger earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1970 from the University of Pennsylvania. She received a master in business administration degree from the Columbia University School of Business in 1973.

Einiger began her 20-year investment career at Goldman Sachs & Co. in 1971 and spent 15 years at The First Boston Corporation, where she became the firm’s first female managing director and went on to head the Capital Markets and the Short-Term Finance Departments. From 1988 to 1989, Einiger served as a visiting professor and executive-in-residence at Columbia Business School, and from 1989 to 1992 was managing director at Wasserstein Perella & Co., Inc. She joined the Clark Foundation in 1992.

Einiger is a member of the board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, where she serves on the investment board and on the audit, budget and finance and the external affairs committees. She is a member of the board of overseers of Columbia Business School and of the investment committee of the Museum of Modern Art. She previously served on the board of trustees of the Horace Mann School and on the Wall Street Division Steering Committee of the UJA-Federation.

Einiger resides in Manhattan with her husband and son.