Sherry Pryor Witter

Witter Family Office • COR Partners LLC • ESL Investments • Lazard LTD • University of Pennsylvania • Juilliard Pre-College

Sherry P. Witter is the Founder, Managing Partner and CIO of the Witter Family Office (WFO). Previous to the WFO, Sherry was the General Partner to multiple hedge funds. As General Partner, Sherry launched sis non-market correlated, capacity constrained opportunistic hedge funds and strategies. 

Over a ten-year period, performance for these funds was in the 99th percentile. Sherry was the portfolio manager across the six products. Additionally, Sherry created and oversaw the research, risk management, and compliance platforms. At the peak, Sherry ran a team of 45 employees. She also ran the P&L for the funds for the Witter Family Office. 

An early investor and seeder, Sherry Pryor Witter has been a partner in over 100 investment strategies, traders, portfolio managers, hedge funds. With each investment, Sherry collaborated with and advised the management and teams. Sherry grew each fund’s assets over ten times for a total of over a cumulative $2.7bb dollar’s of AUM increase.

Acting as a bridge between emerging managers and institutions, Sherry has facilitated the strategic next stages of these teams, operationally, while enhancing performance. This has enabled these emerging managers to be well positioned to receive larger ticketed sized investments from institutions. Some of the strategies include credit, utilities, electricity, natural gas, and equities. Performance for the strategies smoothed over a period of twelve years, was in the 99th percentile.

A builder in nascent technologies, Sherry P. Witter has invested in over 85 AI, blockchain, crypto projects and crypto trading strategies. Sherry often acted as a translator between the engineers and consumers. Being an interpreter, Sherry has been connecting the mass market with founders, creating everyday uses for the technologies.

Further, Sherry often facilitated between traditional finance, technology founders, and sourced expertise and funds when needed. Her ability to uncover investment opportunities, whether direct or through funds, has driven. The growth in assets at the WFO. Sherry continues to search for opportunities with outsized returns.

Sherry Pryor Witter started her financial career as a junior analyst at Lazard Freres and then as an analyst for Eddie Lampert at ESL Investments. She has a BA|BS from the University of Pennsylvania. Before Penn, Sherry was part of the Juilliard Young Artists’ program, where she started at the age of 7.