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Rob Roy
BOARD CHAIR
Dr. Rob Roy is senior vice president of investments and chief investment officer for AdventHealth. In this role, he oversees investments for one of the nation’s largest faith-based health systems, which includes operating capital and employee retirement portfolios totaling approximately $16 billion.
Roy, who has 30 years of institutional investment experience, oversees a 10-person investment team that internally manages over half of the organization’s operating capital. He has dedicated 17 years to supporting AdventHealth’s mission of Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ, during which time he has played a lead role in the development of the organization’s investment philosophy and process, created to reinforce its core values and principles. This philosophy, called “stewardship alpha,” describes the process by which the organization builds its investment portfolios to be sensible, efficient and robust.
Prior to his current role, Roy served AdventHealth as director of cash and investments. His other experience includes holding the position of chief investment officer for Cain Brothers Asset Management, bond trader for Putnam Investments, fixed income specialist on the floors of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and portfolio risk manager for Ferrell Capital.
Roy earned a Ph.D. in finance from The University of London, a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from the Illinois Institute of Technology and bachelor’s degrees in finance from Suffolk University and applied mathematics from Southern New Hampshire University.
He is currently chairman of the AdventHealth Employee Plan investment committee and serves on the finance and investment committee of the Adventist Health Care Retirement Plan. In addition, he serves on the Ardmore Institute of Health board of trustees, Institutional Investor’s Defined Contribution Institute advisory board and has previously served on the board of advisors for the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College.
In 2016, Roy won the Mission and Thought Leadership Award from Institutional Investor, a leading international business to business publisher, focused primarily on international finance.