ALTSNY New York | June 10, 2025

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Stephen Gilmore, Chief Investment Officer, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)

Stephen Gilmore serves as CalPERS chief investment officer and assumed the role in July 2024. He leads the CalPERS Investment Office and is responsible for Total Fund investment strategies and business management. As chief investment officer, Gilmore oversees a team of more than 300 professionals and a portfolio valued at over $500 billion. Stephen has earned global recognition as an investment leader during his 40-year career working in public and private financial institutions. Before joining CalPERS, he served for more than five years as chief investment officer of the governmentowned New Zealand Superannuation Fund, a sovereign wealth fund. The New Zealand fund was valued at $75 billion (NZD) when he left in mid-2024, nearly doubling in size under his watch. It achieved annual investment returns of more than 12% from 2013 to 2022 and was named the best performing sovereign investor globally over the preceding 10 years in 2023. He was also chief investment strategist of the Future Fund, Australia’s sovereign wealth fund and oversaw portfolio strategy, portfolio overlays, investment risk and investment data and analytics. While in the private sector, Stephen held international positions with AIG Financial Products and Morgan Stanley. He held positions as an economist and a resident representative in Tajikistan with the International Monetary Fund and at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand as a research officer. Stephen attended the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand and earned a Bachelor of Commerce and a Master of Commerce in economics. He is a chartered accountant and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors . 

Steven Meier, CFA, Chief Investment Officer and Deputy Comptroller for Asset Management, New York City Retirement Systems

As Chief Investment Officer and Deputy Comptroller for Asset Management, Steven Meier, oversees the five pension systems that compose the New York City retirement systems.

Mr. Meier brings over 40 years of experience in both the public and private sectors, previously serving as Assistant Treasurer and Interim Chief Investment Officer for the Connecticut Office of the State Treasurer Shawn T. Wooden, overseeing the investments of Connecticut’s $40 billion public pension system and its ESG initiatives. Before joining the Connecticut state treasurer’s office, Meier spent more than a decade at State Street Global Advisors, where he rose to Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer for Global Fixed Income, Currency, and Cash Management, overseeing over $900 billion in assets.

Prior to his time at State Street, he worked at Credit Suisse as Director, Global Head of Fixed Income & Money Market Electronic Trading and Senior Trader in the Global Financing Group at Credit Suisse. His experience also includes roles at Oppenheimer Capital, Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, and Irving Trust Company.

Meier is a CFA Charter Holder and certified Financial Risk Manager. He holds an MBA from Indiana University’s Kelly School of Business and a BBA from Hofstra University’s Zarb School of Business.

Adena Friedman, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Nasdaq

Adena Friedman has been the Chief Executive Officer of Nasdaq since Jan. 1, 2017, and was appointed Chair of the Board of Directors on Jan. 1, 2023. She brings more than 20 years of industry leadership and expertise and is credited with significantly shaping Nasdaq’s transformation into a leading global exchange and technology company serving the financial industry.

Prior to her current role as Chair and CEO, Adena held several senior leadership roles at Nasdaq, including President and COO, where she was responsible for the operations of the company’s business segments with a focus on driving efficiency, product development, growth and expansion. She rejoined Nasdaq in 2014 after serving as Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group from March 2011 to June 2014 and playing a critical role in taking the company public in May 2012.

Before Carlyle, Adena was a key member of Nasdaq’s management team for over a decade, serving in a variety of roles, including head of the company’s data products business, head of corporate strategy and Chief Financial Officer. She played an instrumental role in Nasdaq’s acquisition strategy, overseeing the acquisitions of INET, OMX, and the Philadelphia and Boston Exchanges. She originally joined Nasdaq in 1993 as an intern.

Since December 2018, Adena has served as a Class B director for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In January 2024, Adena was elected to the Business Roundtable (BRT) Board of Directors and currently serves as the Chair of the BRT’s Technology Committee. Since January 2020, Adena was elected to the Board of Directors of FCLTGlobal, a non-profit organization that researches tools to encourage long-term investing. In July 2020, Adena began her term as a member of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Williams College in Massachusetts and a Master of Business Administration from Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management.

Sinead Colton Grant , Chief Investment Officer, BNY Wealth

Sinead Colton Grant is Chief Investment Officer of BNY Wealth. Prior to this role, she led the Investor Solutions institutional franchise which develops customized investment portfolios across public and private markets. Sinead joined BNY Wealth in 2020 as Deputy Chief Investment Officer and Head of Equities, with responsibility for the Large Cap Equity investment group, the Equity Trading team and the Capital Markets Group. She chaired the Equity Strategy Committee and was Vice Chair of the Investment Policy Committee. Previously, she was Head of Global Investment and Product Strategy for Mellon, BNY Investment’s North American investment firm, and served on the Senior Leadership team, the Investment Risk Committee, and the Environmental, Social & Governance Investing Committee. Prior to her role at BNY, Sinead served as Managing Director of Investment Strategy for the Multi-Asset Client Solutions group at BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors in London, where she designed tailored investment solutions for institutional and wealth management clients in the UK and Europe. Earlier in her career, Sinead held portfolio management roles at JP Morgan Investment Management, and was a founding partner and Head of Portfolio Management at Lee Overlay Partners, a macro investment boutique. Sinead earned an MSc in Finance from London Business School and a BBS in Finance from Dublin City University in Ireland. She has been recognized over multiple years by Irish America magazine as one of the Wall Street 50, which celebrates the contributions of Irish American and Irish born leaders in the financial industry. 

Mikaël Limpalaër, Head of Americas, AustralianSuper

Mikaël is Head of Americas at AustralianSuper, working out of the Fund’s New York office. He started at the Fund in January 2020 in the London office to build and lead the European Private Credit investment activities and transferred to the US in 2024. Prior to joining AustralianSuper, Mikaël held several senior roles in structured finance and real estate lending at Barclays Capital, Morgan Stanley, and Aeriance Investments in London and Paris, having started his career at Société Générale in New York. Mikaël holds an MSc in Management from EM Lyon Business School.