Mary Jo Palermo is a Partner for the Private Client Practice at Cambridge Associates.
Mary Jo has more than 35 years of experience as an investor and has been with Cambridge Associates since 2004. She manages over $11 billion of family office and endowment assets. Mary Jo has a background in emerging markets and authored a research report entitled The Case for Diversified Emerging Markets Exposure, which was widely covered in industry publications. Mary Jo has presented on emerging markets and assets allocation at CA and external conferences.
She is also a contributing leader on our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council, and sits on CA’s Diverse Manager Council.
Prior to joining Cambridge Associates, Mary Jo worked in the venture capital group at J.P. Morgan Chase, where she led a team charged with screening and launching new businesses with a focus on asset management. Previously, Mary Jo spent 12 years at J.P. Morgan & Co., where she began in institutional emerging markets fixed income sales and trading covering Latin American institutional clients. She was later head of the Mexico high-net-worth client wealth business with operations in New York and Geneva. Prior to J.P. Morgan Chase, Mary Jo was at Chase Manhattan Bank working on direct investing with high‑net‑worth individuals and institutional investors. Prior to this role, Mary Jo was at Chemical Bank in the institutional group.
Mary Jo received her BA from the University of Vermont. She has also completed the Credit Training Program at Chemical Bank along with The New York University Stern School of Business and Columbia Business School.
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