Our People - Profiles
Valerie J. Sill, CFA
President, CEO & Chief Investment Officer
Valerie J. Sill, CFA, is the President, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of DuPont Capital Management (DCM). DCM manages assets of $26 billion across nine different asset classes using a value-based investment approach that combines valuation and risk control disciplines to produce risk-efficient excess returns that satisfy its clients’ investment objectives.
Prior to joining DCM in April 2004, Ms. Sill was Executive Vice President at The Boston Company. There she chaired the Equity Policy Group and was the Director of Large Cap Value strategies. She was a dual officer with Dreyfus, also a Mellon company, where she managed the Dreyfus Premier Core Value mutual funds.
In addition to her work at The Boston Company and Dreyfus, Ms. Sill formed and chaired Mellon’s Research Forum to foster collaboration among investment professionals from each of Mellon’s investment management subsidiaries.
Ms. Sill started her career in asset management with State Street Research & Management Company as a Health Care and Utilities analyst and later joined Investment Advisors in Minneapolis as a senior analyst.
Ms. Sill is a member of the Board of Trustees of Longwood Gardens and chairs its Investment Committee. She is a member of the Investment Committee of the Delaware Community Foundation.
Ms. Sill was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in Economics and Philosophy from Wellesley College. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was a Durant Scholar. She holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University and is a CFA charterholder. Prior to attending Harvard Business School, she studied accounting in the Executive Management Program at the University of California, Los Angeles.
