Lydia Hechter

Lydia Hechter is a member of the Commonfund Asset Management Relationship team with a focus on requests for proposals or RFPs. Lydia manages the team responsible for responding to RFPs, RFIs and DDQ’s. Early on in her career, Lydia spent five years at Lazard Asset Management as a VP of Central Marketing, responsible for all requests for proposals, due diligence questionnaires and maintenance and population of a number of consultant databases. From Lazard, Lydia moved on to Citigroup Asset Management and eventually Legg Mason where she spent six years in various roles with responsibility for the RFP function/team as well as execution and delivery of quarterly product commentaries for over 75 mutual funds and the firm’s separately managed equity, fixed income, fund-of-funds and quantitative strategies for both institutional and public clients. Lydia spent time at Oxford University studying Writing and Psychology and earned a B.A. in Writing and Developmental Psychology from Sarah Lawrence College.