s we reported in the January 21 issue of the Maroon, Greg Wendt, A.B. ’83, made a personal donation of $100,000 to the University’s Blue Chips student investment club in order for the club members to manage their own real portfolio. A former Alpha Delt, Wendt has gone on to become a portfolio manager and investment analyst for Capital Research Company, one of the country’s largest mutual fund management companies. The Maroon caught up with Wendt to ask him a few questions.

Wendt and his brother, Greg, bought the team and moved it to Columbia from Canton, Ohio, in October 2002. Neither had experience in team ownership - Greg Wendt is a mutual fund manager in San Francisco, and Gary Wendt has 15 years of experience in sports marketing and broadcast.

Greg Wendt is a portfolio manager and investment analyst for Capital Research Company, one of the country's largest mutual fund management companies, and a member of the Global Small Company Research Team.  Greg joined Capital in 1987 after receiving an MBA from Harvard.  He also holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Chicago.

Greg is based in Capital's San Francisco office.  He serves on the Board of Teach for America and on the Advisory Board of Larkin Street Youth Services, and is on the Visiting Committee of the College at the University of Chicago.  Greg is an avid marathon runner; he has completed 17 marathons, including 13 New York City marathons.