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Since 1975, the Yale Corporation Investment Committee has been responsible for oversight of the Yale University Endowment. They are located in New Haven, Connecticut

TIFF Advisory Services LLC (TIFF) is an independent fund-of-hedge funds manager headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1991, TIFF delivers comprehensive outsourced CIO (OCIO) and private equity investment solutions to primarily endowments, foundations, and other charitable institutions.

Crow Holdings Capital Partners LLC is an independent private equity firm founded in 1948. The firm is headquartered in Dallas.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Verdis Investment Management LLC (Verdis) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded by James Biddle in 2004 and is a subsidiary of ViosCapital LLC. Verdis provides management services and investment advisory: (i) on a discretionary basis, to certain privately placed pooled investment vehicles (Verdis Funds) and (ii) on a discretionary or non-discretionary basis, to separately managed accounts and wealth advisory clients.

Farallon Capital Management (Private Equity) (Farallon Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Farallon Capital Management LLC founded in 1986 by Thomas Fahr Steyer. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

DUMAC, Inc. is the investment arm of Duke University, a private research university headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. Founded in 1989, the firm manages Duke University’s endowment assets. In addition to managing Duke’s endowment, DUMAC also manages the university’s defined benefit pension plan assets, Duke University Health System’s investments, and much of the university’s working capital. DUMAC also manages the assets of The Duke Endowment, the private charitable trust established by Duke University’s founder, James B. Duke.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.