Edward Kolano

Ed Kolano joined The Heinz Endowments in July 2013. As the Endowments’ vice president of Finance & Administration and its principal financial officer, he provides operational and financial management leadership. Ed also is the foundation’s chief investment officer, and is responsible for overseeing, at the direction of the Investment Committee, all investments and investment managers of the Endowments.

Before joining the Endowments, Ed was a senior financial executive with The Hillman Company. Hillman is a private, fully integrated family office, which manages a multi-billion dollar, diversified, global portfolio with an emphasis on private equity investing. Ed gained 23 years of investment-related experience with Hillman, where his last position was vice president, treasurer. Prior to Hillman, he started his career as an analyst with Westinghouse Corp. and an auditor with KPMG Peat Marwick.

Ed is a certified public accountant in the state of Pennsylvania. He received his bachelor’s in accounting in 1984 and his Master of Business Administration, concentrating in finance, in 1990, both from Duquesne University.