Trustees
Robert E. Angelica
Robert E. Angelica has served on a number of public and private company, mutual fund, and nonprofit boards of directors. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Legg Mason, a public global asset management firm. He chairs the Risk Committee and serves on the Audit and Finance Committees of the Legg Mason Board. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Turrell Fund, a foundation serving children. He serves on the Finance and Investment, Audit, and Personnel and Governance Committees of the Turrell Fund Board.
Previously, he was a member of the Board of Directors of Simon Property Group, a public real estate investment trust, and of Corporate Property Investors (CPI), a private real estate investment trust acquired by Simon. In addition, he served on the boards of mutual funds including the Capital Group Emerging Markets Growth Fund and the Batterymarch Global Emerging Markets Fund, and of nonprofits including the Kidney Cancer Association and Junior Achievement of New York.
Mr. Angelica was Chairman and CEO of the AT&T Investment Management Corporation (ATTIMCO), a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T and an SEC registered investment adviser responsible for the investment and administration of more than $80 billion of employee benefit assets on behalf of AT&T and certain third parties. After joining AT&T, Mr. Angelica attained levels of increasing responsibility and upon formation of ATTIMCO was appointed President and Chief Investment Officer. He was subsequently named Chairman and CEO. Before joining AT&T, he worked as a securities analyst with the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company.
He served leadership positions in the investment and pension industries including as a member of the Board of Governors of the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) Institute, the Board of Directors of the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (Q Group), and the New York Stock Exchange Pension Managers Advisory Committee (PMAC). He was Chairman of the Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets (CIEBA), the leading national association of corporate pension fund executives.
Mr. Angelica has been a guest speaker on investments at leading business schools including Stanford, Wharton, Columbia, and Tuck. He taught graduate level courses in investments and economics, part-time, at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
He graduated from Rutgers University earning a BA degree, magna cum laude, in economics, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received an MBA degree, with distinction, in finance from New York University. He was awarded the CFA designation. He completed executive education programs in investment management at Harvard and Stanford.
Bob has served on the Turrell Fund Board since 2004.