Julia Crosby

Julia T. Crosby is a Managing Director at the Williams College Investment Office, the team that manages the college's endowment. She joined the Investment Office in 2012 and is responsible for the portfolio's global public-equity (long-only) allocation and its private-equity book, which spans buyouts, venture capital, and real estate. In this role she is an institutional allocator — she selects and commits capital to external fund managers rather than investing directly into startups.

Before joining Williams, Crosby built a career across investment consulting, corporate private-equity management, and venture/growth banking. She was a Research Consultant at NEPC (an institutional investment consulting firm), a Private Equity Senior Manager at Alcatel-Lucent Investment Management Corporation, a Vice President at Silicon Valley Bank, and a Senior Associate at BancBoston Capital. This path gave her direct exposure to both the technology/venture ecosystem (Silicon Valley Bank, BancBoston Capital) and institutional portfolio construction (NEPC, corporate PE).

Crosby holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Babson College, a school known for its entrepreneurship and finance focus. She works alongside the broader Williams Investment Office team, led by CIO Collette Chilton, which manages the college's multi-billion-dollar endowment.

• Operates as an endowment limited partner: her "investments" are commitments to external fund managers (VC firms, buyout funds, real-estate managers), not direct company checks.
• Oversees global public equity (long-only) and private equity — specifically buyouts, venture capital, and real estate — for the Williams endowment.
• Emphasizes the long-term, fundamentals-driven role of private equity in endowment portfolios; she has participated in educational panels (e.g., with TIFF) framed around "key fundamental principles of private equity investing" and why private equity remains important for endowments.
• Manager selection is the core activity: as an allocator she evaluates and backs fund GPs over multi-year horizons rather than evaluating individual seed-stage startups.

As an endowment allocator, Crosby's specific fund commitments and underlying portfolio positions are not publicly disclosed — Williams College, like most university endowments, does not publish its manager roster or individual holdings. No specific, verifiable deals or portfolio companies attributable to her personally could be confirmed from public sources, and none are listed here to avoid fabrication.