William Lee

William (Bill) Lee was senior vice president and chief investment officer for NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP), overseeing its $9.5 billion investment program including endowment, retirement, and current assets, and managing the Office of Investments team responsible for all of NYP’s investment assets. Previously, Mr. Lee was chief investment officer and vice president of Foundation and Pensions Investments at Kaiser Permanente. Beginning in 2005, he served as chair of the Kaiser Permanente Retirement Plans Investment Committee and the Kaiser Foundation Investment Committee. Mr. Lee oversaw approximately $78 billion in defined contribution, pension, and foundation assets. He managed interest rate and foreign exchange risk for Bank of America’s global proprietary desks in the 1980s, then left for eight years to work as a police detective.