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CalSTRS CEO and leadership

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Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Cassandra Lichnock is the CalSTRS's CEO. CalSTRS has 927 employees, of which 228 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The CalSTRS executive team is 46% female and 54% male.
  • 50% of the management team is White.
  • 15% of CalSTRS management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 8% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Name & TitleBio
Cassandra Lichnock

Chief Executive Officer

Cassandra Lichnock's LinkedIn

I am the first female chief executive officer of the California State Teachers' Retirement System, the largest educator-only pension fund in the world.

As CEO, I build and execute strategy, deliver on operational excellence and serve as adviser to the Teachers' Retirement Board. I continue to build on the fund’s commitments to sustainability and advancing our diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

Christopher J. Ailman

Chief Investment Officer

Harry M. Keiley

Board Chair

Betty Yee

Ex-Officio, State Controller

Scott Chan

Deputy Chief Investment Officer

Scott Chan's LinkedIn

Oversee and manage investment division of a defined benefit pension fund with $230 billion in assets and over 140 investment staff.

Sharon Hendricks

Board Vice Chair

Denise Bradford

Board Member

Fiona Ma

Ex-Officio, State Treasurer

Jennifer Urdan

Board Member

Karen Yamamoto

Board Member

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CalSTRS board members

Name & TitleBio
Harry M. Keiley

Board Chair

Betty Yee

Ex-Officio, State Controller

Sharon Hendricks

Board Vice Chair

Denise Bradford

Board Member

Jennifer Urdan

Board Member

Karen Yamamoto

Board Member

Ken Tang

Board Member

Michael Gunning

Board Member

William Prezant

Board Member

April Wilcox

Board Member

CalSTRS leadership demographics

CalSTRS gender distribution in management team

  • The CalSTRS executive team is 46% female and 54% male.
  • CalSTRS is 52% female and 48% male company-wide.
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Male
54%
Company-wide: 48%
Female
Female
46%
Company-wide: 52%

CalSTRS executives by race

Management Team:
  • The most common ethnicity among CalSTRS executive officers is White.
  • 50% of the management team is White.
  • 24% of CalSTRS's management is Asian.
  • 15% of the management team is Hispanic or Latino.
Company-wide:
  • White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
  • 40% of employees are White.
  • 33% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
  • 13% of employees are Asian.
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What employees say about the executives at CalSTRS

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A zippia user wrote a review on Dec 2023
Pros of working at CalSTRS

None

Cons of working at CalSTRS

Upper management are the biggest bullies I have ever met. Especially I'm HR

What do you like best about CalSTRS's CEO and the leadership team?

Nothing. Never met a ruder human in my life.

How would you improve CalSTRS's culture?

Learn so human kindness and decency.

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Updated November 18, 2022

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