V’Ella Warren is the Senior Vice President and Treasurer, Board of Regents at the University of Washington (UW), a research university with annual revenues of $3 billion. She is responsible for an endowment of $2 billion and total investments of $3 billion. Ms. Warren also leads the University’s financial management, capital projects, facilities and strategy management organizations with nearly 1,600 employees.

Ms. Warren has been at the UW since 1987. Prior to moving into higher education, she worked in commercial banking and manufacturing. Ms. Warren was the Vice President of the Asset Liability Planning for Seafirst Bank (1980–1985) and People’s Bank (1985–1987). She worked in Indonesia for Union Carbide (Manager, Management Development) and Springs Mills (Vice President, Personnel) in the mid-70’s, before moving into the finance arena.

A fifth-generation native of the Pacific Northwest, Ms. Warren has advanced degrees from the UW; an M.A. in Asian Studies and an MBA in Finance with honors. Her undergraduate degree is from Willamette University in Oregon, where she graduated cum laude in Political Science and Chinese.

Ms. Warren is a frequent national speaker and panelist on investment and leadership topics. She and Louis T. Wells, Jr. co-authored “Developing Country Investors in Indonesia,” which was published in the Bulletin of Indonesian Studies.