Brant W. Smith

Brant is a Founding Partner and Managing Director at Disciplina Group. He has direct experience managing all aspects of traditional and alternative investments within endowments including sourcing, due diligence, structuring, positioning, risk management, and monitoring managers and portfolios. He is the former Managing Director of Research at Vanderbilt University’s Office of Investments. There, Brant was responsible for the investment and operational due diligence process across all asset classes in the portfolio. He was also a key person in generating investment leads across the globe, solidifying Vanderbilt’s manager relationships’ depth and quality. Prior to joining Vanderbilt in 2007, Brant spent eight years with Emory University’s endowment. There, he was a Senior Investment Analyst covering liquid alternatives, global equities, and fixed income. He was responsible for managing relationships with current and prospective managers and helped manage over $2.0 billion in new investments during his tenure. His primary duties included due diligence, manager monitoring, portfolio analysis, risk analysis, capital market research, and asset allocation analysis. Brant is a graduate of Emory University (1999) with a BBA from the Goizueta Business School. He received his MBA with honors (Beta Gamma Sigma) from Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Business (2010). Brant is also a CFA® charter holder and is a member of the CFA Institute and CFA Society Nashville.