Srinivas Pulavarti joined Emory Investment Management in 2018. Prior to joining Emory, he served as President and CIO of the UCLA Investment Company from 2012 to 2018, overseeing approximately $2.3 billion in assets on behalf of the UCLA Foundation and its affiliated organizations.

Before UCLA, Pulavarti spent seven years as President and CIO of Spider Management Company, the University of Richmond’s asset management affiliate. During his tenure, he conceived and built one of the first successful outsourced CIO models in higher education, helping establish a new approach to institutional investment management.

With nearly 25 years of experience managing assets for endowments, foundations, and pension plans, Pulavarti has held several senior investment leadership roles. These include Director and Head of Global Investment Strategy for Citigroup Pension Investments in New York, Director of Investments at Johns Hopkins University, Portfolio Manager and Manager of Investments at Lockheed Martin Investment Management Company, and Senior Fixed Income and Sovereign Research Analyst at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Pulavarti earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry from Bangalore University in India and a Master of Science in Applied Economics from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.