Joseph Boateng joined Casey Family Programs as its first Chief Investment Officer in 2007. He is responsible for overseeing the foundation’s $2.5 billion endowment in collaboration with Casey’s Board of Trustees. Casey Family Programs is the nation’s largest operating foundation with a mission focused solely on providing and improving—and ultimately preventing the need for—foster care.
Career highlights
Before joining Casey Family Programs, Boateng was a member of the Johnson & Johnson Investment Committee, responsible for managing over $17 billion in employee benefit assets worldwide. Previously, Boateng was a managing consultant at KPMG Consulting, leading major derivatives, financing, and securitization projects for large-scale financial clients. Boateng spent 13 years with the Xerox Corporation where he held various positions, including being a key member of the Trust Investment Team that managed $10 billion in pension and savings plan assets worldwide. In addition, he served as Regional Development Officer for AIESEC, the world’s largest student organization, in Africa until he joined Xerox in 1988.
Boateng received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Ghana in 1987 and his Masters in Business Administration degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991. He has also served as an instructor at Cal State-Dominguez Hills.
Selected public service and honors
Boateng serves on the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) Financial Instruments Working Group, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)/IASB Financial Institutions Advisory Group, and the Mellon Client Advisory Board. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Derivatives Accounting.