Marc Weill

Senior Advisor, Two Sigma Ventures, Inc.

2014 - Current

At this early stage venture capital fund investing in transformative companies - harnessing information growth and computing power to change the world - Weill focuses on investment opportunities in financial, digital and health technologies. He also provides strategic support for Two Sigma’s venture capital fund’s portfolio companies.

Private Investor

2009 - 2014

Personally invested in high growth areas.

Founder & Chairman

2004 - 2009

Founded City Light Capital Investment, an impact investing venture capital firm specializing in start-up and early-stage enterprises that positively impact society. He served as Chairman of City Light through 2009, overseeing all aspects of investing in a variety of innovative and progressive products and solutions. Companies he supported pioneered new approaches to gunshot-detection systems and other surveillance technologies that combat inner-city crime and streamlining of first-responder systems and electronic health records. City Light also supported several sustainable enterprises and projects in Latin America.

Co-Founder & Chairman

2001 - 2003

This fund-of-funds investment firm outperformed the S&P by over 1,000 basis points during his tenure.

Chief Investment Officer & Senior Executive VP

1992 - 2000

In 1992, Marc Weill became Chief Investment Officer and Executive Vice President of Primerica, managing $2 billion dollars of company assets with a staff of three. After the Travelers merger in 1994, Weill was named Chief Investment Officer overseeing $30+ billion dollars in assets. Over the next six years, which included mergers with Solomon Brothers and Citibank, the assets grew to over $130 billion, which generated over $7 billion in revenue, and an expansion of staff from 250 to over 600 employees. In 1997, Weill was promoted to Senior Executive Vice President and named to Travelers/Citigroup’s influential 16-member Management Committee, comprised of the company’s most senior officers. Weill’s responsibilities included managing the assets of insurance, pension fund and wealth management business lines. He employed a range of investment strategies spanning all global asset classes, both public and private, including alternative investments such as timber, trade finance and venture capital, emerging economies debt, Brady bonds, distressed debt, commercial paper, foreign exchanges, hedge funds and fund of funds, leveraged fixed income, municipal bonds, structured products and real estate. Weill also established a $30-billion Alternative Investment Group that incubated funds including Tishman Speyer Realty Fund, Tribeca Investments, Greenwich Street Capital Partners, Rivkin Venture Capital Fund, a Brazilian infrastructure fund, and an Israeli technology venture capital fund. Additionally, he was responsible for Rosenberg Capital Management and was named to the Investment Committee of Citibank Venture Capital.

Vice President, Investment Bank Restructuring Group

1989 - 1991

In 1989 he departed Shearson to join Smith Barney as Vice President of the firm’s Restructuring Group, where he brought in some of the most lucrative bankruptcy and restructuring deals.

Financial Consultant

1983 - 1989

Joined the Asset Management Group where he established himself as an adept financial advisor, overseeing 500 retail and institutional clients, earning Chairman’s Club status with his exceptional performance. Initially was a Management Trainee, hired out-of-college to work under Dwight Faulkner (1980 – 1982).

Risk Arb.

1982 - 1983