Joseph McNay

Chairman, Chief Investment Officer & Senior Portfolio Manager

Joe is the Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Essex. Prior to founding Essex in 1976, Joe was Executive Vice President and Director of Endowment Management & Research Corp. for nine years. Before 1967, Joe was Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager at the Massachusetts Company. Mr. McNay serves as a Distinguished Trustee and member of the Investment Committee and Trustee Science Committee of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He is also a Trustee Emeritus of the Boston Ballet,  a Trustee Emeritus of Children’s Hospital, as well as an Honorary Advisor of the Museum of Fine Arts. Mr. McNay is also an Overseer Emeritus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Yale University School of Management Advisory Committee.  Mr. McNay is also a Trustee of Tenacity and the New England Foundation. He is on the Board of Directors of RegeneRx and LiveData.