Joyce Zhang joined the investment team at Wallace in 2016. She assists the chief investment officer in the management of the foundation’s investment portfolio. Her responsibilities include the monitoring of investment managers, and risk management and analytical support.

Prior to Wallace, Zhang worked as a senior fixed income trader at Ping An Asset Management, one of the largest insurance companies in China. There, she traded Chinese and Hong Kong stocks and international bonds for 200 portfolios with more than $100 billion in assets and was one of the firm’s top traders. 

Zhang received her M.B.A. from Yale University. She holds an M.S. in global business from Pepperdine University and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. She is both a chartered financial analyst and chartered alternative investment analyst.

Zhang is a Kauffman Fellow, part of a two-year program dedicated to advancing education, leadership, and networking for venture capitalists and innovation leaders. She also serves as a New York chapter leader for the Association of Asian American Investment Managers, advocating for greater diversity and inclusion within the investment industry.

Cynthia Do Nascimento, Managing Director of Investments, joined RWJBarnabas Health in 2024 where she collaborates with the CIO to devise and implement investment strategy, risk management frameworks, and asset class structures.  Prior to joining RWJBarnabas Health, she spent 11 years at the New York University investment office where she was a senior member of the investment team, specifically responsible for public and private equities and credit, with generalist responsibilities across the portfolio.  Prior to joining NYU, Ms. Nascimento was a Vice President at Marathon Asset Management, a $10 billion global credit investment manager, where she focused on distressed and situational investments.  Prior to Marathon, she was an Associate at CHS Capital, a middle-market private equity firm, and an Analyst in the Investment Banking division of William Blair & Company.  Ms. Nascimento holds a Bachelor of Science with the Highest Distinction Honors from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.  She is a recipient of accolades including the Top 22 in ’22 by Kayo Conference Series, Top 30 Investors at Next Generation Leading Endowments by Trusted Insights (2019), as well as nominations as a Fellow of the Robert Toigo Foundation and of The Economic Club of New York.  She is fluent in Portuguese and conversant in Spanish.

Sophia Tsai is Managing Director at Trinity Church, a ~$6 billion endowment. Sophia covers asset allocation, fund investments and co-investments across all alternative and traditional asset classes globally.

Prior to joining Trinity Church in 2017, Sophia was Managing Director and Co-Head of Hedge Funds at State Street Global Advisors. She co-led the hedge fund program and was also responsible for private equity direct investments, co-investments and fund investments for GE Pension. Sophia joined State Street in 2016 through its acquisition of GE Asset Management. At GE, Sophia was based in the US more recently for eleven years, and also held several roles in Asia during 1995 to 2005 at three GE Capital divisions including GE Equity, GE Capital Asia Pacific’s M&A Group and GE Capital Finance.

Sophia chairs the Investment Committee of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. She holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and the University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong, and a BBA in Accounting from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Sophia is a CFA charterholder.

Aaron Witte is a Senior Portfolio Manager at AustralianSuper in the Private Equity Group, operating out of the New York office, where he started in July 2022 to help the fund execute its North American investment strategy of primary fund investments and direct investments. Prior to joining AustralianSuper, Aaron was a founding member of SwanCap Partners, a Munich-based private equity manager, where he led the firm’s North American investment activities out of the New York office across private equity fund, co-investment and secondary investments. Before helping to establish SwanCap Partners, Aaron held positions in the Principal Investments and Leveraged Finance groups at UniCredit Bank. Prior to joining UniCredit, Aaron was in the Private Placements Group at Deloitte and started his career at Houlihan Lokey, where we worked on a variety of financial restructuring and M&A transactions.

Aaron holds a B.S. from NYU’s Stern School of Business and a Masters Degree from SDA Bocconi School of Management.