Sherri Rossoff, Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer

Sherri Rossoff is a Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer at RockCreek, focusing on firm management, and legal matters. Prior to this, she was senior counsel at the World Bank in the legal finance group, where she concentrated in the areas of pension investments and asset management, focusing on alternative investments. She has acted as counsel to the World Bank’s Pension Finance Committee and provided technical assistance to various central banks globally on governance and investment management best practices.

Sherri serves on the Global Board of Directors of 100 Women in Finance; she has served as Chair of the Markets Advisory Council of the Council of Institutional Investors. She also serves on the Board of Sasha Bruce Youthwork, the largest D.C. not-for-profit serving youth and young adults experiencing homelessness. She began her career as an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton in New York. Sherri earned her law degree from New York University School of Law and her B.A. in Economics and Political Science, summa cum laude, from Queens College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Sherri is an active supporter of 9/11 Health Watch, a group dedicated to ensuring quality medical care and compensation for injured and ill 9/11 responders and survivors. She actively supports a variety of not-for-profit groups focused on community inclusion, including VisArts, whose mission is to transform individuals and communities through the visual arts; and the Spirit Club Foundation, whose mission is to offer a universal design for fitness that empowers people of all abilities to exercise successfully in a socially integrated setting.