Liz Tennican

Liz Tennican joined Carmel Partners in 2016 and is a Managing Partner and the Head of Investor Relations. She also oversees Data Science & Research and ESG. Ms. Tennican is Secretary of the Executive Committee, Vice Chair of the Management Committee and a member of the Investment and Portfolio Management Committees.

Prior to Carmel, Ms. Tennican was a Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations and Business Development for Watershed Asset Management, a credit-oriented hedge fund. Previous to Watershed, she spent seven years with Barclays Global Investors, which was acquired and became part of BlackRock. She headed the Institutional Consultant Relations Group and then spent five years as Head of U.S. Institutional Sales for the iShares division, where she built the U.S. Marketing Strategy and Sales Team. Prior to that, Ms. Tennican was with a hedge fund where she held various leadership roles, including CFO and COO. She spent seven years at Robertson Stephens, where she was in investment banking and institutional sales and helped found its capital markets desk.

Ms. Tennican is a member of the Board of Directors of Four Corners Property Trust, a publicly traded REIT, where she is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee.

Ms. Tennican received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Stanford University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.