Michael Barry will join Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, as vice president and chief investment officer in February, he confirmed in a Jan. 27 email to Pensions & Investments.
He will succeed Jason Perlioni, who stepped down from the role in June. Executive search firm BraddockMatthewsBarrett conducted the search.
Barry will be responsible for overseeing the university’s endowment and leading investment activities, said an earlier job posting for the position. He will report to Laurent Heller, senior vice president for finance and administration.
Barry is currently CIO at Georgetown University, where he oversees the investment portfolios for the Washington-based university’s $3.7 billion endowment and $14 million pension plan. His last day will be Jan. 31.
He joined Georgetown in 2011, after leaving as CIO of the University System of Maryland Foundation in Adelphi, Md., which had $2.3 billion in assets as of June 30.
Chris Gill, who is managing director at Georgetown, is serving as interim CIO, Barry said in the email.
A Johns Hopkins spokesperson said in a Jan. 27 email that Barry, who is a native of Maryland, is an alumnus of the university. Barry obtained his master’s degree from Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies.
For the fiscal year ended June 30, Johns Hopkins’ endowment had $13.1 billion in net assets, according to an annual report. The endowment grew by 24.8%, up from $10.5 billion as of June 30, 2023.
