Joseph C. McNay
Chairman, CIO & Managing Principal
Essex Investment Management

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Joe is chairman and chief investment officer of Essex Investment Management Company, LLC. He has direct portfolio management responsibilities on a variety of funds and on behalf of private clients. He is a member of the firm’s management board. Prior to founding Essex in 1976, Joe was executive vice president and director of Endowment Management & Research Corp. for nine years. Before 1967, Joe was vice president and senior portfolio manager at the Massachusetts Company.

Currently he is serving as trustee of National Public Radio, Brigham and Women’s Professional Organization, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston Ballet, and is a Trustee and member of the Children’s Hospital Trust. He is a trustee emeritus of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and an overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Museum of Fine Arts. He serves on the investment committees for Roxbury Latin, Children’s Hospital Trust, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. He is also on the advisory board of the Yale School of Management. He received his AB degree from Yale University and his MBA degree from the Wharton School of Finance.