  New Trustees The Colorado Trust is pleased to welcome to its Board of Trustees Jennifer Paquette, Chief Investment Officer, Public Employees' Retirement Association of Colorado (Colorado PERA); and William Wright, MD, Executive Medical Director and President, Colorado Permanente Medical Group (CPMG). Their five-year terms will begin January 1, 2009.Paquette and Wright will fill two vacancies on The Trust's nine-person board created when the terms of Judith B. Wagner and Jerome M. Buckley, MD, conclude, following 10 years each of exceptional service. At the Colorado PERA, Paquette manages investment activities for the $40 billion pension plan, overseeing portfolio and risk management for domestic and international equities, fixed income, real estate, alternative investments and new investment opportunities. She also manages relationships with external asset managers, the custodial bank and investment consultants and - as a member of the organization's executive group - she represents Colorado PERA to legislative bodies and other external entities. Paquette was previously a vice president at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith and Alliance Capital Management. She holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Colorado.
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Wright serves as Executive Medical Director and President of the Colorado Permanente Medical Group (CPMG). In this role, he is responsible for shaping the medical care delivered to one in seven insured Coloradans in the Denver-Boulder area who are members of Kaiser Permanente Colorado. Previously, as CPMG's Associate Medical Director of Market and Networks, he assessed and developed community network relationships with the medical group in partnership with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado. Wright conducted his family medicine residency at St. Joseph's Hospital in Denver and is a member of the American Academy of Family Practice, the Colorado Academy of Family Practice and the Colorado Medical Society.