Lynn Poole

Lynn Anderson Poole spent her career at Dodge & Cox, the San Francisco–based investment management firm, which she joined in 1987. Over 33 years she rose to Vice President and Director of the Private Client Group, the unit that manages portfolios for high-net-worth individuals, families, and institutions. She is a shareholder of the firm, a CFA charterholder, and a Chartered Investment Counselor. Dodge & Cox announced that she would retire on December 31, 2021 ("after 33 distinguished years of service"), giving her age as 60 at the time; she was succeeded in her directorship by Eric Warner.

Her education and early career: she earned an A.B. from Stanford University (1982) and, after roughly three years at the brokerage firm Sutro & Co., completed an M.B.A. at the UCLA Anderson (Graduate) School of Management in 1987, joining Dodge & Cox that same year.

Since leaving Dodge & Cox, Poole describes herself simply as a "Private Investor" on LinkedIn — consistent with managing personal/family assets rather than running a fund or an angel syndicate. No investment vehicle, fund, or firm under her own name could be found.

Outside of investing, she is active in San Francisco civic and nonprofit life. She has served on the Board of Trustees of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) since about 2018, in leadership roles including Vice Chair/Treasurer, and her professional contact is also associated with Matriculate, a nonprofit that connects high-achieving, low-income high-school students with trained undergraduate college advisors.

• No publicly stated *personal* investment thesis could be found. In her Dodge & Cox career, her domain was Private Client Group wealth management — long-term, value-oriented investing in public equities and fixed income on behalf of individuals, families, and institutions, in keeping with Dodge & Cox's well-known patient, fundamentals-driven house style.
• Present-day self-description is "Private Investor," which typically denotes managing one's own capital rather than deploying an external fund into startups.
• No documented seed-stage, venture, or angel thesis (check sizes, sector focus, target company profile) exists in public sources. These fields from the stub could not be verified and are therefore left blank rather than fabricated.