Mark Yusko

Mark Yusko studied finance at Notre Dame and earned an MBA from the University of Chicago. He spent years at the University of Notre Dame's investment office before becoming CIO of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill endowment, where he applied David Swensen's Yale model — allocating heavily to private equity, hedge funds, and real assets. In 2004 he founded Morgan Creek Capital Management, an investment management firm that provides endowment-model portfolio management services to family offices, foundations, and smaller institutions that cannot access the Yale-style allocations on their own. Morgan Creek manages over $3 billion across a diversified alternative investment portfolio. In recent years Yusko has been one of Wall Street's most outspoken advocates for cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, founding Morgan Creek Digital to invest in the sector. He has been a prolific public communicator — appearing at conferences, publishing market commentary, and hosting podcasts — positioning himself as a contrarian macro thinker who challenges consensus views on monetary policy, technology, and global economic trends. His willingness to make specific, sometimes controversial predictions and his energetic public profile have made him one of the more recognizable personalities in alternative investment management.