Chad Myhre

Chad Myhre is a Managing Director on the public-markets team at the Alfred I. duPont Charitable Trust, the Jacksonville, Florida-based trust that stewards Alfred I. duPont's estate in support of children's health (it is affiliated with the Nemours children's health system). At the Trust he oversees public investments and capital-allocation decisions, working within a team whose stated ethos is "finding exceptional investments" and forgoing good ideas "in favor of great ones."

He built his career as an institutional allocator in Missouri's public pension system. He spent roughly eight years at the Missouri State Employees' Retirement System (MOSERS), where he managed an approximately $2 billion externally-managed hedge fund portfolio and ran a portable-alpha program. Around 2017 he moved to the Public School & Education Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri (PSRS/PEERS) as a Portfolio Manager, where he was profiled by *Chief Investment Officer* magazine as a 2018 "NextGen" rising allocator (he was 35 at the time) while building a ~$2 billion domestic equity portfolio blending long-only and long/short managers, emphasizing concentration and sector expertise, and developing risk frameworks to track and hedge unintended exposures.

Before joining the duPont Trust, he held a similar public-investments role at the Heinz Family Office. In total he brings roughly 17 years of allocator experience. He earned a B.A. in Finance from the University of North Dakota (2001–2004) and holds both the CFA and CAIA charters. His self-described strengths span investment strategy, hedge funds, asset allocation, fixed income, and alternative investments.

• Public-markets allocator, manager-selection driven. His core work is choosing and funding external managers — historically long-only and long/short domestic equity plus hedge funds — rather than direct company investing.
• Concentration and sector expertise. At PSRS he built the equity book around managers who take concentrated, sector-informed positions rather than diffuse benchmark-huggers.
• Risk-aware construction. He has emphasized building frameworks to identify and hedge *unintended* exposures across a portfolio, alongside portable-alpha programs layered over beta.
• Alpha in efficient markets. He has publicly noted how hard genuine alpha generation is as markets grow more efficient; his CIO at PSRS described him as "an alpha generator … willing to explore complex investment ideas."
• Culture and governance. In his own words he stresses teamwork over individual credit, "seeking truth over winning debates," and the importance of proper governance and patient boards for long-horizon institutional capital.
• Personal venture curiosity (not a mandate). He has expressed enthusiasm for venture investment in alternative-protein / food companies, citing food security, climate, and animal-welfare upside — a personal interest, not his allocation mandate.