Grace A. Ames joined Oak in 1999 as Chief Operating and Financial
Officer and was promoted to General Partner for Oak XII. Prior to Oak,
Grace's senior management career in the financial industry spanned
portfolio management, brokerage, trading analytics, cash management and
global custody. From 1984 to 1989, Grace developed and managed the
non-dollar and derivative product trading operations for Harvard
Management Company in Boston. From 1989 ...
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Grace A. Ames joined Oak in 1999 as Chief Operating and Financial
Officer and was promoted to General Partner for Oak XII. Prior to Oak,
Grace's senior management career in the financial industry spanned
portfolio management, brokerage, trading analytics, cash management and
global custody. From 1984 to 1989, Grace developed and managed the
non-dollar and derivative product trading operations for Harvard
Management Company in Boston. From 1989 to 1994, Grace was a Vice
President at Barclay Investments, Inc. in New York where her
contributions included trade analysis, systems development, cash
management and operations management. Grace returned to Boston in 1994
to join Brown Brothers Harriman's global custody operation as manager
of the Treasury Department. Just prior to joining Oak, Grace served as
CFO of New Bond Trading, Inc., an investment manager of a group of
complex offshore, fixed income hedge funds. Grace received her B.A.
degree in Government from Smith College.
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