Laura Payne

Laura Payne is an investment leader with over two decades of experience managing multi-asset portfolios spanning endowments, foundations, and institutional family wealth. She is currently Head of Marketables at Eighteen48 Partners. Prior to this role, she served in senior investment capacities at the Walton and Pritzker family offices in Chicago, and earlier held positions as a Director at Citadel LLC and a Vice President at Goldman Sachs. She began her career at The University of Chicago Investment Office.
Laura holds a master's degree from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and both a master's and bachelor's degree from Marquette University.  She serves as Investment Committee Chair for Openlands and Chair of the Board of the Alliance for the Great Lakes, two of the Midwest's leading conservation nonprofits.