Mike Peltier is the COO of VCU Investment Management Company, supporting Virginia Commonwealth University and its related entities in Richmond, Virginia. Virginia Commonwealth University is pioneering what it means to be a public research university while remaining focused on innovation, diversity, and access in the Commonwealth and beyond.

Mike shares lessons learned from his audit and tax background helped him lead the operations of the investment office.

We discuss the key pillars of the tech stack and some unique ways to leverage common technology to create efficiency.   Mike discusses AI use cases you can use today that reduces the friction with investment and operations teams of all sizes.

We then turn to outsourcing service providers and the importance of building personal networks to stay on top of an ever-changing industry.