Finance Careers for the Academically Inclined
Jane Buchan, Reed Trustee and 
CEO, Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company
2:30—3:30 p.m., Friday, April 20, Greywood
Treats served!  

Last winter, the following note was attached to a risk analyst position posted in IRIS: 

Reed trustee Jane Buchan, CEO at PAAMCO, welcomes your pre-application inquiry.  She writes, "The profile is to work on modeling securities and testing hypothesis…..our current individual in the job is a Harvard math major who is applying this year (year 3) to top b-schools.  He will leave regardless (it is a three year job)."

Despite targeted outreach to prospective candidates, no Reedies applied, and Jane is interested to learn why. She is also interested in sharing her experience and thoughts about finance careers for the academically inclined. 

We look forward to having you join us!

Bio: Jane Buchan is a Reed College trustee and the chief executive officer and one of the four original founders of Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO), a leading independent fund of hedge funds investment firm dedicated to offering strategic alternative investment solutions to the world's preeminent sophisticated investors. Clients include large public and private pension plans, foundations, endowments and financial institutions.

Jane is widely regarded as a leader in the hedge fund industry and serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Alternative Investments. She sits on the board of several funds at Carlson Capital, LP, a large multi-strategy hedge fund, and is a director of the Torchmark Corporation.  She is also a member of the Advisory Council at the University of California, Irvine School of Business, and has served as an assistant professor of finance at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Jane received her undergraduate degree in economics from Yale University and her masters and Ph.D. in business economics (finance) from Harvard University.