Natalie Jenkins Sorrell is the Deputy CIO for the $3.6 billion Employees’ Retirement Fund of the City of Dallas. Natalie is responsible for the design and implementation of the overall investment strategy and policy for the Fund. She joined Dallas ERF in 2006 and has spearheaded efforts to fulfill new private equity, private real estate, global equity, and master limited partnership (MLP) allocations of more than $600 million collectively. Most recently she has led the effort to build the Next Generation Manager Program at ERF allocating 10% of the fund to smaller, newer, and/ or minority owned investment managers across asset classes. Natalie holds an MBA from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania where she was a Robert A. Toigo Fellow, and a BA with honors from Spelman College.