Overview
Betty Salanic is the chief executive officer and founder of accelerate, based in New York City. She founded Accelerate Investors in 2019 and has led it since, and since January 2020 she has also hosted the firm's CIO Conversations podcast.
Before that she was an advisor to Kanarys, Inc. from 2018 to 2024, and from 2016 to 2018 she headed The Investors Group at a non-profit. In 2014 and 2015 she worked on private equity investments at Rice Management Company, Rice University, having spent 2012 to 2014 as an associate at New York Bay Capital and 2010 to 2011 as an investor relations associate at Root Capital. She began her career at J.P. Morgan, where she was a Latin America banking summer analyst in 2007 and a capital advisory analyst from 2008 to 2010, following a summer analyst position in FICC at Goldman Sachs in 2006.
Salanic holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance from the Texas McCombs School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in corporate communication from The University of Texas at Austin, and also studied at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Università Bocconi.
Career history
- FounderAccelerate
In the news
- What brought us to Columbus? The investors themselves. Over the past few years, institutional investors from across Ohio have joined us at our Paris Roundtable, Summer Investor Insights Summit in Chicago, and Annual Summit in New York. Last week, we brought the conversation to them. It was wonderful to gather for the Accelerate Investors 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 with investors from across the region, some joining our community for the first time and others we've had the pleasure of knowing for years.
- What brought us to Columbus? The investors themselves. Over the past few years, institutional investors from across Ohio have joined us at our Paris Roundtable, Summer Investor Insights Summit in Chicago, and Annual Summit in New York. Last week, we brought the conversation to them. It was wonderful to gather for the Accelerate Investors Columbus Investor Roundtable with investors from across the region, some joining our community for the first time and others we've had the pleasure of knowing for years. The conversations started
- Two appointments I’m especially happy to celebrate: Abigail Kahn Archibald as Chief Investment Officer of the Mellon Foundation and Harisha Koneru Haigh as Chief Investment Officer of Northwestern Medicine. Abigail and Harisha have both have been part of our Accelerate Investors community, sharing their perspectives at our Annual Summit in NYC and Summer Investor Insights Summit in Chicago earlier this year. Abigail has also served as an advisor, and I’m grateful for the time and guidance she has shared with Accelerate Investors.
- How do you move an emerging manager from conviction to allocation? Next week, I’ll be exploring that question on stage at IPEM Paris with three institutional investors who bring distinct perspectives: Diego Alaimo, Generali Investments Taffi Ayodele, Office of the New York City Comptroller Dee Sharma, CFA, Northern Trust OCIO Most LPs can articulate the case for emerging managers. Far fewer can get one through an investment committee. That gap is where the interesting conversation begins. The data is rarely the hardest part. Many
- Where has your summer taken you so far? Mine has taken me to Boston, where the American Revolution began. To Detroit, a reminder of the automotive ingenuity and industrial history that helped build our country. To Chicago, for our Summer Investor Insights Summit and another round of candid conversations with allocators. And into the pages of 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin which reminded me how much history has to teach us about the world we invest in today. 📚 That brings me to one of my favorite Accelerate Investors summer
- Timing is everything. Clear skies over Chicago, and tomorrow the right conversations, at the right moment, in the right room. Looking forward to seeing familiar and new faces at the Accelerate Investors Summer Investor Insights Summit! #AccelInvest #InstitutionalInvesting #Chicago
- No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop I love the juxtaposition in this photo. A live sparrow landed on the fountain, mirroring the bronze boy reaching out to the bird, a quiet moment with the George Washington equestrian statue rising in the background. George Washington is remembered as the man who held an army together through winters that should have ended it, who walked away from power when he could have kept it, and who helped turn the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness into a
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