OUR TEAM

Mark Yusko is the Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Creek Capital Management. He is also the Managing Partner of Morgan Creek Digital. Morgan Creek Capital Management was founded in 2004 and currently manages close to $2 billion in discretionary and non-discretionary assets. Prior to founding Morgan Creek, Mr. Yusko was CIO and Founder of UNC Management Company (UNCMC), the Endowment investment office for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before that, he was Senior Investment Director for the University of Notre Dame Investment Office.

Mr. Yusko has been at the forefront of institutional investing throughout his career. An early investor in alternative asset classes at Notre Dame, he brought the Endowment Model of investing to UNC, which contributed to significant performance gains for the Endowment. The Endowment Model is the cornerstone philosophy of Morgan Creek, as is the mandate to Invest in Innovation. Mr. Yusko is again at the forefront of institutional investing through Morgan Creek Digital Assets, which was formed in 2018. Morgan Creek Digital is an early stage investor in blockchain technology, digital currency and digital assets.

Mr. Yusko received a BA with Honors from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA in Accounting and Finance from the University of Chicago.

Mike Hennessy is a co-founder of Morgan Creek Capital Management, and serves as the Director of Investments. In this role, Mr. Hennessy 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.

Prior to joining Morgan Creek in 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. Mr. Hennessy also assisted in developing overall investment objectives as well as strategic and tactical asset allocation for the funds. Mr. Hennessy 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, Mr. Hennessy was an Investment Director at Duke Management Company (Duke University) where he assisted in the management of multi-billion portfolios across all asset classes of various University-related investment pools. Before joining Duke in 1991, Mr. Hennessy was an Associate at Amundi 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. Mr. Hennessy 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, Emeritus Trustee of the College of William & Mary Foundation Board of Trustees, and former member of its Executive Committee and Investment Committee (immediate past Chair), and a Trustee of the Murray 1693 Scholars Foundation.

Dr. Jaitly is an entrepreneur, artificial intelligence and blockchain expert, and investor.  Over the past 20 years, Dr. Jaitly spent much of his career building new technologies to address significant market demands.  Dr. Jaitly was the co-founder and CEO of flexEngage, which was a patented data & analytics company deployed across 10,000 retail stores globally and acquired by Klarna.  After flexEngage, Dr. Jaitly joined Datalogix, which was a big data platform for digital media and acquired by Oracle.  Since 2018, Dr. Jaitly has launched three venture capital funds focused on artificial intelligence and blockchain, which have invested in numerous early stage companies.  Dr. Jaitly graduated with an Bachelor of Arts in International Business and Master of Business Administration from Rollins College, Doctor in Business Administration from University of Florida, and holds an Executive Education Certificate in Blockchain Technologies from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Axe Wu joined Morgan Creek in 2021 and is based in Shanghai.  She is responsible for analysis, research, and due diligence.  Prior to joining Morgan Creek, Ms. Wu worked as an investment analyst for a family office in New York.  Ms. Wu graduated from ECUPL with her Bachelor's Degree in Finance and received her Master's Degree from Columbia University in Enterprise Risk Management.