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Chief Investment Officer
and Chief Financial Officer,
Illinois State Treasury
Rodrigo Garcia serves as the
Chief Investment Officer and
Chief Financial Officer for the
Illinois State Treasury under Sta-
te Treasurer Michael Frerichs.
In this pivotal executive post,
Garcia directs the treasury's
combined $25 billion fixed inco-
me, equity, and venture capital
portfolios, all investment and
financial professionals, multiple
asset classes and $300 billion in
related banking and financial
services in order to maximize
portfolio returns and bolster the
Illinois macro and micro eco-
nomy.
He holds two post-graduate
degrees, one in finance from the
University of Illinois and one in
public policy from Northwes-
tern University, and he recently
completed a senior executives
program at Harvard's Kennedy
School of Government. Garcia
was previously the Director of
the Illinois Department of Ve-
terans' Affairs and a member of
the Illinois Cabinet, and he has
also worked for Morgan Stanley
& Co., Inc. and the Federal Reser-
ve Bank of Chicago.
Garcia serves as the Chair-
man Emeritus of Student Vete-
rans of America, as Chairman
of the National Hispanic Life
Sciences Society, as Board Vice
President for Teatro Vista Thea-
tre Company, and as a trustee for
the Northeastern Illinois Univer-
sity Foundation Board. He is also
a Marshall Memorial Fellow, an
ACPYL Fellow, a Truman Partner
and an Aspen Institute Scholar.
Garcia has also been named one
of the "Top 100 under 50" Exe-
cutive Leaders by Diversity MBA
Magazine and was recognized as
a "Rising Star" by the National
Society of Hispanic MBAs.
He is an avid entrepreneur, a
successful financier and an an-
gel investor.
Rodrigo Garcia, 34
The state's investor
"A
nything worth fighting for
never comes easy. Life is a
toll road not a freeway."
