Denise (Villars) Strack
Chief Investment Officer
Denise (Villars) Strack is the chief investment officer for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Before assuming the CIO position, Denise was the director of Private Equity and Real Assets for the Foundation. Previously, Denise served as director of Private Equity at Stanford Management Company where she oversaw investments in private and long-biased public equity relationships and was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company in its private equity and financial services practices group.
Strack received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and an M.B.A. both from Stanford University.