Harold Hewitt

Harold W. Hewitt, Jr. is a higher-education finance and operations executive whose public investment-related record is tied to endowment management rather than direct angel investing. Governor Gavin Newsom’s March 15, 2024 appointment notice says Hewitt, of Villa Park, was appointed to the California Educational Facilities Authority, a state authority that provides bond financing support for private nonprofit higher-education facilities.

Hewitt served as Chapman University’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from 2008, according to Chapman’s newsroom and the Governor’s office. Before Chapman, he was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association from 2006 to 2008, Vice President for Administration and Finance and CFO of Occidental College from 1996 to 2006, Vice President for Business and Finance of Whittier College from 1989 to 1996, and Director of Budget and Planning at Whittier from 1988 to 1989.

His education includes an MBA in finance from Claremont Graduate University and a BA in philosophy from Cornell College. WSCUC also lists him as an administrator member of its Appeals Committee and says he joined the Commission in 2009, with service on nine WSCUC visiting teams and as co-chair of the Substantive Change Committee.

The stub data describing him as an “Angel Investor” could not be verified from primary sources. The source-supported investor record I found identifies Harold Hewitt as an Occidental College Endowment contact in an “Emerging Seed” investor list; the public record otherwise points to institutional endowment oversight, higher-education finance, and public facilities finance.

• Public evidence supports an institutional allocator profile, not a direct angel-investor profile. Preqin identifies Occidental College Endowment as an endowment plan with exposure to alternative asset classes including PE and VC.
• An investor-listing source identifies “Harold Hewitt, CFO / Lindsay Van Voorhis, Cambridge” as contacts for “Occidental College Endowment” under “Emerging Seed.”
• Occidental’s more recent endowment policy states that the endowment had been reducing fossil-fuel exposure and would “continue to increase its endowment commitments to energy transition strategies as a percentage of total endowment assets.”
• The endowment appears to use external advisors/managers: Occidental’s climate-change endowment resolution references Cambridge Associates, and the investor-listing source pairs Hewitt with a Cambridge contact.
• No public check-size, direct-investment thesis, or founder-facing startup criteria were found.