Deborah Shufrin has been appointed CIO at Colby College and will be responsible for its $1 billion investment portfolio.
In her new role, Shufrin will work alongside the college’s board of trustees’ portfolio investment committee, the president and its CFO, to oversee the college’s investment team and the allocation of Colby’s investments. She will step into the new position on April 1.
Shufrin joins Colby from Brandeis University, where she currently serves as deputy CIO. She joined the university in 2010, doubling the portfolio from $620 million to $1.1 billion, as of 2020.
“She has a passion for investing and discovering inefficiencies in markets that can lead to greater returns,” said Colby president David Greene. “The breadth of her professional experiences makes her deeply knowledgeable about and ideally suited to oversee a diversified portfolio like Colby’s endowment.”
Shufrin graduated from Brandeis and also holds an M.B.A. from
