Carrie Thome, the chief investment officer of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, has left the tech transfer organisation after 18 years.
Carrie Thome, chief investment officer of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Warf), on Thursday stepped down after 18 years in the job, according to the Institutional Investor.
Thome had joined Warf in July 2001 and oversaw Warf’s $3bn investment portfolio. Strategic communications director Jeanan Yasiri Moe told the Institutional Investor it was a personal matter and Warf would not comment further.
Warf is the tech transfer office for University of Wisconsin–Madison and Morgridge Institute for Research. Founded by alumni in 1925 as an independent organisation, it handles patents and licensing on behalf of UW Madison, to which it provides an annual grant worth tens of millions of dollars.
Thome is being replaced on an interim basis by deputy chief investment officer Alain Hung. Warf’s managing director Erik Iverson and the board of trustees will consider next steps in the coming months.
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