Gwen Cheni
Investor and Entrepreneur
16 years of professional investing experience, advising C-suites and Boards
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• Primary Functions: Portfolio Manager; Board Advisor
• Secondary Functions: Strategy; Corp Dev/Biz Dev; Sales
• Asset Classes: Public Equity (with a Venture Capital approach); Preferred Equity; Convertible Bonds/Credit; Angel/Venture; Real Estate; Derivatives; Global Macro; Crypto/Blockchain
• International: global, independently traveled to 65 countries
• Publications: co-author of chapter in physics text book; two second author in neurosurgery; one first author in electrical engineering
\\\"Gwen is the Assistant Portfolio Manager on both the equity and convertible funds at Pier 88. Prior to joining Pier 88, Gwen was a Senior Equity Analyst at Brown Brothers Harriman, Lord Abbett, and a Research Analyst at Legg Mason Capital Management. She also worked as an Associate Equity Analyst at J.P. Morgan, and started her career as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs. She received her BA from Yale University with a major in Economics and minor-equivalent in Computer Science Electrical Engineering, where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She received her MBA in four concentrations from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business with Honors. She is a CFA charterholder.\\\"