Anthony Walker, Booth '14, is currently a general partner at Next Coast Legacy, an Austin based private investment firm focused on the entrepreneurship through acquisition asset class. Prior to joining Next Coast, Anthony was vice president, Global Investment Research at Goldman Sach. In 2019, he cofounded Ellisen, a startup focused on helping institutions of higher education better recruit and retain diverse talent. Before joining Goldman, Anthony spent approximately five years managing long-short equity portfolios at Millennium Management and Citadel, two of the largest asset management funds in the United States. He has also worked in long-only asset management and from 2012 to 2015 was a vice president and member of the investment committee at Chicago based Ariel Investments, where he was responsible for covering the energy and industrial services sectors. Anthony began his career in sell-side equity research and spent five years at Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers covering the oil service and drilling sector. Anthony earned his BA from Columbia University (NY) where he concentrated in economics and political science and received his MBA from Chicago Booth. He is a member of numerous boards of directors, including serving as vice chairman of GreatSchools, a national non-profit focused on helping parents make more informed choices on where to send their children for their K-12 education.