Clare Eilers

Dari Motion: Developing Real-World Deliverables

The Institute for Global Investing has created many different, unique opportunities for students – both those pursuing a degree in business and those with a nonbusiness major. The most impactful experience I have been able to participate in at Notre Dame involved working as a member of the Institute’s Corby Capital team. During this project, fifteen students and I worked with a medical imaging device company called DARI Motion to develop a CIM (confidential information memorandum). With a completed CIM, the company took the documentation to investors in order to raise another round of funding. Upon finalizing our draft deliverable, the team and I presented in front of DARI senior executives and investment professionals, each of whom had been in constant contact with our team through the duration of the project. DARI Motion then brought our draft to an investment bank where they developed a finalized CIM. Since then, we have been in continued communication with the company. DARI shared the final CIM, allowing us to see our work – the end markets and a large part of our research – incorporated in the final draft. The project exposed the students in the Corby Capital team to an investment professional’s daily work and allowed our deliverable to be utilized in the real world. After seeing the impact of a CIM on a growth equity company’s effort to raise more funds, the project sparked and solidified my interest in finance.

GWI: Promoting Gender Diversity and Inclusion in the Industry

The Institute for Global Investing, since its establishment, has emphasized the importance of diversity in the workplace by promoting “diversity of thought” in each project and program. The asset management industry lacks gender diversity on investment teams, especially at higher management roles. NDIGI has made a concerted effort to highlight this gender gap and expose and educate women on the many different opportunities available within the finance industry. The Institute partnered with Girls Who Invest, a non-profit organization committed to changing the gender imbalance. For four weeks over the summer, Notre Dame and the Institute hosted fifty female students from schools across the country for one of Girl’s Who Invest’s Summer Intensive Programs. The training program focused on core investment concepts and skills taught by leading business school professors from both Notre Dame and other preeminent financial institutions. Additionally, during lunch each day, various male and female speakers came and spoke to us about their different career paths, allowing us to gain more understanding of the industry as we decipher where we could potentially see ourselves in the future. Upon completion of the training program, Girls Who Invest placed each woman in a six-week paid internship at a leading asset management firm. I was placed at Farallon Capital Partners, a hedge fund in San Francisco, where I worked as a long and short equity intern. This unprecedented, unique experience, has not only has shown me the importance of gender diversity in any workplace, but also motivated me to enter and stay in the asset management industry for years to come.