Daniel Crews and Grant Leslie have been promoted into key leadership positions in the Investments Division of the Tennessee Treasury, effective June 24, 2025.
Crews, who has served as director of private equity since 2013, has been named deputy CIO. He will now assist CIO Michael Brakebill in leading the treasury investments division, responsible for managing and overseeing $125.5 billion in state assets, including the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) valued at more than $69.4 billion.
Crews has been stewarding the state’s capital for nearly 26 years, since starting in 1999 with the treasury cash management team. He later transitioned to senior portfolio manager in TCRS’s public equities group. In his latest role, as director of private equity, he led his team to deliver 17.4 percent returns per year for 15 years, resulting in more than $1.3 billion in active value creation, as of June 30, 2024.
Crews holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA
