Summer 2025 Interns
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Raya Goulding
What attracted you to intern at the WIO?
The course “Demystifying Finance” taught by Anne Martin, Wesleyan’s Chief Investment Officer, first introduced me to the basics of finance and investing. The course sparked my interest, and I wanted to build upon my understanding of investment management. The WIO internship presented a unique opportunity to delve deeper while working to support future generations of Wesleyan students.
What are you most looking forward to/ hoping to learn?
I am most looking forward to working with and learning from the rest of the WIO team, which will give me valuable insight into what a career in finance can look like. As a Neuroscience major, I am also hoping to develop a long-term project that explores the intersections of science and investing, potentially by researching biotechnology companies and the healthcare sector.
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Oliver Molz
What attracted you to intern at the WIO?
I was drawn to the Wesleyan Investment Office because institutional investors like Wesleyan play a crucial role in fueling the private equity industry. The opportunity to learn how the team evaluates and allocates capital to one manager over another is particularly exciting, especially given the current market dynamics.
What are you most looking forward to/ hoping to learn?I'm excited to learn how the Wesleyan Investment Office balances the University's liquidity needs while maximizing long-term returns. I find endowments' relatively long investment horizon intriguing and look forward to further understanding the team's process of identifying superior managers and how they alter their asset class allocations given the endowment's goals.
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Ana de Souza Silva Cruz
Past Interns
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Benas Babenskas
2024 Intern
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Sophia Chen
2024 Intern
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Nimai Kini
2024 Intern
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Fatoumata Gaye
2023 Intern
What attracted you to intern at the WIO?
I was looking for opportunities that would provide me a window into investing and asset management and really liked the carefully designed experience that the WIO provides. I was drawn to the office because of its team and even while I was recruiting, I could tell everyone would be invested in training and mentoring me which is incredibly valuable. -
Zeyad Shariff
2023 Intern
What attracted you to intern at the Wesleyan Investments Office?
I was attracted to the WIO for two reasons. First, institutional money is in many ways the lifeblood of the public and private capital markets. Working for the WIO presents the unique opportunity to sit on the LP's side of the table and understand how, why, and under what conditions capital is committed to private equity managers, hedge funds, VC funds, and a range of other alternative asset classes. It's a perspective that students and early-career finance professionals rarely have the chance to explore, and I'm excited that working at WIO will give me that opportunity. Secondly, I think working with the Investments Office is particularly meaningful as a Wesleyan student, because of how tangible and relevant its contributions are. Being an investor is interesting in its own right, but working for a single "client" – the University you attend – is a particularly rewarding experience.
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Lucas Pirner
2023 Intern
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Natchanok "Pim" Wandee
2021 Intern
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Bob Liu
2021 Intern
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Hudson Dore
2021 Intern
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KATIE TYNER
2017 Intern
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TING GAO
2016 Intern
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KYLE GIBSON
2014 Intern
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SAMUEL USDAN
2013 Intern
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ROSS PETCHLER
2011 Intern