Mike Hennessy

Mr. Michael P.
Hennessy is Managing Director of Investments at Morgan Creek Capital Management LLC.
He serves as the Director of Investments.
In this role, he provides oversight to the Private Investments Group, and acts as a Portfolio Strategist on portfolios beyond private investments, including work with Morgan Creek's advisory clients and proprietary funds.
He is Treasurer of Duke University Federal Credit Union, a member of the Investment Committee at the Carolina Friends School, a director of the Morgan Creek Foundation, a member of the Investment Committee and Executive Committee at the College of William & Mary Foundation Board of Trustees and immediate past Chair of its Investment Committee.
Prior to co-founding Morgan Creek in July 2004, Mr. Hennessy was Vice President and a founding member of UNC Management Company.
Primary areas of responsibility included domestic equity, international and emerging markets equity, opportunistic equity, absolute return, fixed income, enhanced fixed income and private investments.
He also assisted in developing overall investment objectives as well as strategic and tactical asset allocation for the funds.
He was responsible for monitoring both public and private individual managers and overall portfolio performance, as well as risk management.
Prior to joining UNC in 1999, he was an Investment Director at Duke Management Company where he assisted in the management of multi-billion portfolios across all Private asset strategies of various University-related investment pools.
Before joining Duke in 1991, he was an Associate at Smith Breeden Associates, a quantitative investment management firm with offices in Durham, NC.
Mr. Hennessy received his Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and he also holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Philosophy, Psychology and Mathematics from the College of William and Mary.