"The most valuable thing a leader can have is humor," Betsy Battle, Chief Investment Officer and Founding Partner of Lone Peak Partners

Today's episode of Leading Through Life is with Betsy Battle, Chief Investment Officer and Founding Partner of Lone Peak Partners.

Prior to starting her own firm, Ms. Battle was Director of Manager Selection and a member of the Management Committee at Soros Fund Management LLC. Over her eight years there, she not only managed multibillion dollar portfolios of external hedge funds for the Quantum group of funds and George Soros, but also built the manager selection and due diligence processes and the multi-manager portfolio construction and monitoring methodologies. Prior to Soros Fund Management, she held positions at Bankers Trust, Citicorp and JP Morgan primarily in Global Sales and Trading. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School Foundation, the Board of Directors of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and the President’s Council of the Peconic Land Trust. Ms. Battle received a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976.