Marshall Rauci

Marshall Raucci, Jr. is a long-tenured institutional investment consultant with more than 46 years of investment-industry experience. He joined Prime Buchholz — an independent investment consulting firm founded in 1988 and headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire — in 1996, and served as a Managing Principal. The firm's current staff directory now lists him as Managing Principal Emeritus, indicating he has stepped back from full-time day-to-day duties. Prime Buchholz advises endowments, foundations, nonprofits, and other institutional clients on investment planning, asset allocation, manager selection, and risk monitoring, and markets itself as fully independent (accepting no compensation from managers).

Before Prime Buchholz, Raucci was an Executive Vice President and Managing Director at Fleet Investment Services, where he oversaw a multi-discipline investment operation managing approximately $45 billion in assets. He holds a B.A. from Marist College and an M.S. from SUNY College at Buffalo.

Raucci is notably active in higher-education and nonprofit governance. He has served on the Providence College Board of Trustees' investment committee (overseeing the institutional endowment), as a member of Providence College's National Board of Overseers and President's Council, and as a Trustee of Roger Williams University. He also served on the Board of Directors of CharterCARE Health Systems and as chairman of its investment committee. (He is a Providence College parent — "'04P" — with a son, Marshall Raucci, who graduated PC in 2004 and became a lawyer.)

It is important to be accurate here: Raucci is an *institutional investment consultant*, not a seed-stage or venture-capital investor. A founder searching for startup capital would not find a check-writer in this profile; the "Investment Banks & Service Providers" and "Seed Round" labels in the source stub appear to be mis-categorizations.

• Works on the institutional / allocator side of the industry — advising endowments, foundations, and nonprofits on portfolio construction, asset allocation, and manager due diligence, rather than investing directly in operating companies.
• Prime Buchholz's stated approach emphasizes independence: "no outside business relationships that influence the way they serve clients," no compensation accepted from managers, and no recommending products that don't fit client needs.
• Strong personal conviction in experiential, hands-on investing education. On seeding a student-managed fund he said students "develop an understanding of the investment world that is deeper than classroom study can provide," and framed his giving as an investment in student success.