LEADERSHIP

Arielle Patrick is Chief Communications Officer at Ariel Investments, a global investment firm with $18.3 billion in assets under management as of 12/31/21. Arielle sits on Ariel's Operating Committee and also serves on the Risk and ESG committees. She leads an integrated team that handles all communications for the firm and its private equity subsidiary, Ariel Alternatives. This includes: media relations, government affairs, philanthropy, marketing, internal communications, corporate and executive leadership communications, branding and creative. Arielle also represents the firm on the Investment Company Institute (ICI) Public Communications Committee.

In her spare time, she is an investor in two early stage companies and an advisor to a venture capital firm; sits on the Board of Directors for Yellowstone National Park's foundation; the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Public Relations; the Board of Directors (and Chair of the Development Committee) of The Harbor Sciences & Arts Charter School; the Steering Committee for the Young Fellows of The Frick Collection Museum; and the President's Council of The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Arielle is also a Founding Member of Chief.

Arielle graduated from Princeton University, where she studied in the Department of Classics with a concentration on Ancient Greek and Latin language, literature and history.

Prior to Ariel, Arielle worked for Edelman, the world's largest communications consulting firm. There, she served as Executive Vice President & Transaction Director in the Financial Communications & Capital Markets practice. She formerly held a variety of positions at global PR firm Weber Shandwick, a subsidiary of IPG, within its Financial Communications, Crisis Communications & Issues Management, and Corporate Reputation Management practices.