The $4B Nature Conservancy (TNC) has appointed Jeff Mindlin chief investment officer, effective Dec. 15, 2025.
In an email to Markets Group, a spokesperson confirmed Mindlin would take over the reigns, leading the strategic management of TNC’s endowment and long-term investment assets. In his new role, Mindlin will serve as a senior ambassador of TNC’s investment strategy and mission, fostering relationships with investment partners, donors, financial intermediaries and other stakeholders.
Currently, Mindlin is the vice-president and CIO of Arizona State University’s ASU Enterprise Partners, a role he has held for the past eight years. Prior to that, he was an adjunct faculty member at ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, where, according to his LinkedIn profile, he supervised student-led management of more than $500,000 of the Foundation’s assets through an investment strategy that incorporates environmental, social, and governance metrics while also considering overall impact.
Earlier in his career, Mindlin also served as co-CIO for Tower Square Investment Management and as CIO of the First Allied Asset Management Inc. He was also a member of CogBooks’ Board of Directors and as an investment committee member of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix.
Mindlin succeeds Bola Olusanya, who left the Nature Conservancy to join the $9B John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as its new CIO. During the more than five years Olusanya was CIO at the Arlington-based non-profit, he built up the Nature Conservancy’s first internal investment team.
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