Speaker
Tom Williams
Managing Director, Head of OCIO
Morgan Stanley
Tom Williams, CFA, is the Head of the Outsourced Chief Investment Office managing all investment advice and portfolio management for institutional clients. He manages and oversees mandates for the Outsourced Chief Investment Office (OCIO). Tom has over 20 years of experience managing diversified portfolios as a Chief Investment Officer, Portfolio Manager, and Director of Research.
Prior to joining the firm in June 2020, Tom was Chief Investment Officer and President of Pine Grove Asset Management, a multi-strategy fund of hedge funds. Tom held many senior positions at Pine Grove, including Portfolio Manager and Director of Research, before executing a management buyout and assuming co-ownership. During his tenure, his responsibilities included portfolio management, manager due diligence, risk management and client relationship management. In 2014, he negotiated the sale of Pine Grove to the Man Group, a London-based global investment manager, where he continued as Chief Investment Officer of Pine Grove and was a member of the investment committee for its multi-manager division overseeing $17 billion of portfolios of hedge funds. Tom is a CFA charterholder, received his B.A. in economics from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and earned a law degree from the University of Southern California. He lives in Summit, New Jersey, with his wife and two teenage children. Tom is on the Board of Trustees for SHIP, Summit Helping Its People, whose mission is to feed the homeless and at-risk homeless people in Summit and assist participants in obtaining additional support services.