Anthony Walker is currently a General Partner at Next Coast Legacy, an Austin based private investment firm focused on the Entrepreneurship through Acquisition asset class.
Prior to joining Next Coast, Anthony was Vice President, Global Investment Research at Goldman Sachs. In 2019, he co-founded Ellisen Inc., a startup focused on helping institutions of higher education better recruit and retain diverse talent. Before joining Goldman, Anthony spent approximately five years managing long-short equity portfolios at Millennium Management and Citadel LLC, two of the largest asset management funds in the United States. He has also worked in long-only asset management and from 2012 to 2015 was a Vice President and member of the Investment Committee at Chicago based Ariel Investments, where he was responsible for covering the energy and industrial services sectors.
Anthony began his career in sell-side equity research and spent five years at Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers covering the Oil Service and Drilling sector. Anthony earned his BA from Columbia University (NY) where he concentrated in economics and political science and received his MBA from the University of Chicago.
He is a member of numerous Boards of Directors, a mentor-in-residence for the Zell Fellows Program (ETA Track) for Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, a visiting ETA Advisor for the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship for the Booth School of Business.
