Richard W. Slocum

Director of Private Investments, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Rick Slocum joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in August 2005 as the director of private investments. In this role he managed a portfolio of over $2 billion in commitments, with investments in private equity, venture capital, growth equity, distressed investing, opportunistic credit and real assets. Since joining the Foundation, Rick has also been responsible for building its Asian private equity and real assets portfolio. In 2009, Rick became Director of Portfolio Management. Rick’s responsibilities include asset allocation, risk management, and portfolio solutions for the entire RWJF portfolio, working closely with the CIO. Rick chairs an Internal Investment Committee, which discusses both specific managers and general issues as they relate to the Portfolio. Rick also participates on a Liquidity Committee chaired by the CFO of The Foundation.

Previously, he had worked at the University of Pennsylvania as senior director of investments, where he helped monitor all asset classes for the University’s endowment. Prior to that, Rick worked for over 20 years at three different banks in New York City, primarily as a private placement specialist, which afforded him broad exposure to corporate finance, project finance, credit and derivatives, as well as some principal activity in private equity. At different times during his work in banking, Rick had primary responsibility for both the origination and structuring of private placements - in particular for structuring credit and private equity -- as well as for pricing and syndicating transactions. Rick began his career as a credit analyst.

Rick received an MBA in finance and a B.S. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.