Host, Capital Allocators Podcast
Ted Seides, CFA is the founder of Capital Allocators, a flywheel that includes the Capital Allocators podcast, Capital Allocators University, and Capital Allocators Summits. Ted launched the podcast in 2017, and the show crossed ten million downloads in April 2022. The show has been recognized as the top institutional investing podcast. In March 2021, Ted published his second book, Capital Allocators: How the world's elite money managers lead and invest that distills key lessons from the first 150 episodes of the podcast.
From 2002 to 2015, Ted was a founder of Protégé Partners LLC and served as President and Co-Chief Investment Officer. In 2016, he authored his first book, So You Want to Start a Hedge Fund: Lessons for Managers and Allocators, to share lessons from his experience. He began his career under the tutelage of David Swensen at the Yale University Investments Office and spent time in between investing directly at three of Yale’s managers.
He is a member of the Advisory Council for the Alliance for Decision Education and an active participant in the Hero’s Journey Foundation. He previously served as Trustee and member of the investment committee at the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Trustee and head of the Programming Committee for the Greenwich Roundtable, and on the Advisory Board of Citizen Schools-New York.