Nationality American Name Anne Dias-Griffin | Occupation Hedge fund manager Other names Anne Dias | |
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Born 1970 (age 44–45) France Alma mater Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
Harvard Business School Spouse Kenneth C. Griffin (m. 2003–2015) Education Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Harvard Business School Similar People Kenneth C Griffin, Melanie Craft, Bruce Rauner | ||
Marriage location Versailles, France | ||
Anne Dias-Griffin (born 1970) is an American money manager and philanthropist. She is the founder and managing partner of the Chicago-based Aragon Global Management, a hedge fund that focuses on global equities.
Contents
- Early life and education
- Career
- Investment career
- Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation
- Boards
- Personal life
- Awards
- Published papers
- References
Early life and education
Dias-Griffin was born in France in 1970. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1992, where she once worked as an overnight security guard to pay for tuition. She received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1997.
Career
To further finance her undergraduate education, Dias Griffin worked full-time during college, on both domestic and foreign policy issues. She was a research assistant to constitutional law scholar Walter Berns, the Olin Professor of Government at Georgetown University, and helped research a book on the Electoral College. She also assisted Patrick J. Glynn, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, on his book about the history of the Cold War.
In 1991, she was the Brussels representative for the American Electronics Association, and focused on European policy issues. She also worked on European Community and foreign policy issues as an intern at the German Parliament in Bonn and Berlin during the summer of 1992.
Dias Griffin has written on foreign policy issues for the Financial Times; she wrote about US loans to help rain forest conservation in Latin America.
She owns the for-profit website Reboot Illinois, which she launched in 2012.
Investment career
After receiving her degree from Georgetown University, Dias Griffin worked as a financial analyst in the Investment Banking department of Goldman Sachs in London and New York and at Fidelity Investments Limited in London. She joined Soros Fund Management as an analyst after obtaining her MBA and was promoted to portfolio manager one year later. At Soros, she specialized in the retail and financial services industry and managed a long/short portfolio of financial services stocks. Dias Griffin then joined Connecticut-based Viking Global Investors as an analyst, focusing on global media and internet stocks.
Dias Griffin started her own fund, Aragon Global Management, LLC in New York City in 2001 with start-up capital from hedge fund titan Julian Robertson of Tiger Management. Aragon invests in media, technology, and telecommunications companies around the world; at its peak managed close to $200 million in assets. At the end of 2009, Dias Griffin returned capital from outside investors to focus on her family and the Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation, and ran Aragon as a family office.
In 2010, Dias-Griffin ran a hedge fund called Navarra.
Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation
Dias Griffin was co-President of the Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation, which she co-founded in 2009; it was dissolved in 2014 due to the couple's divorce. The foundation focuses on early childhood education, the arts, and medical research, with particular emphasis on the health of women and children. The Griffins pledged more than $100 million to leading innovators and entrepreneurs whose initiatives are bringing measurable and sustainable change to the community. Dias Griffin organizes a national conference on early childhood education every year in Chicago for teachers, academic researchers and public policy experts.
In 2006, Anne Dias Griffin and Kenneth Griffin gave $19 million to the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 2009, the Griffin's donated $10 million to establish the Griffin Early Childhood Center.
In 2010, they donated $16 million to the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago of Chicago at Northwestern University to create an Emergency Care Center, which opened in 2012.
In 2010, Dias Griffin founded the Chicago Heights Early Childhood Center (CHECC), an experimental school program for preschool-aged kids. Since then, Dias Griffin has partnered with University of Chicago and Harvard economics professors to support and refine the program. The CHECC has helped close to 900 children.
Boards
Dias Griffin is a member of Harvard Business School’s Board of Dean's Advisors, a Director of the Museum of Modern Art, and a Trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Civic Federation of Chicago. Dias Griffin is also on the Advisory Board of WomenOnCall.org.
Dias Griffin is a former trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where she headed the Investment Committee. She was also a Trustee of the Children's Memorial Medical Center and Foundation which is part of the Lurie Children’s Hospital at Northwestern University. Dias Griffin is a former director of Friends of Island Academy (FOIA).
Personal life
Dias Griffin married hedge fund manager, Kenneth Griffin, in 2003. In 2015, Griffin and Dias-Griffin divorced, citing “irreconcilable differences.” The couple has three children.