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ND Business Council Welcomes TCW President and CEO Katie Koch to 2024 Spring Breakfast
Bill Kennedy, Portfolio Manager for Fidelity Investments, Will Moderate
Wednesday, May29 – 7:30 a.m.
Goodwin Law
100 Northern Avenue, Boston Seaport
**Registration details to follow
Katie Koch (’02) is President and Chief Executive Officer of TCW and serves as a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to joining TCW in 2023, Ms. Koch spent 20 years with Goldman Sachs in the Asset Management Division (AMD), where she was a Partner and most recently served as Chief Investment Officer of the $300 billion Public Equity business and as a member of the AMD executive committee. Previously, she was based in London for 10 years where she held several leadership roles including Head of the Multi-Asset Solutions business internationally. Ms. Koch currently serves as a board member for the University of Notre Dame’s Board of Trustees and as a Co-Chair of the University of Notre Dame Wall Street Leadership Committee and the advisory board of the Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing (NDIGI). Ms. Koch was named a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum.
Bill Kennedy (’90) is a Portfolio Manager at Fidelity Investments (FMR) where he manages the International Discovery Fund (since 2004) and co-manages the Fidelity Sustainable International Equity Fund, which was launched in 2021. Mr. Kennedy is based in Boston after having lived in London for 15 years where he started FMR’s UK office. Prior to his current responsibilities, he managed several of Fidelity’s Asia-Pacific funds and was based in Tokyo. He also lived in Hong Kong where he was an analyst for Fidelity covering emerging markets and was Director of Research where he led Asia’s largest ‘buy-side’ research team. A 1990 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Mr. Kennedy serves on the Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters Advisory Council and is an Adjunct Assistant Teaching Professor where he teaches a class in London titled Investing in Emerging Markets.