Katherine Hill Ritchie

Katherine Hill Ritchie serves as TEDCO’s Senior Director, Venture Funds, where she works with the Investment team to identify, invest in, and help grow technology and life sciences companies across Maryland.

Katherine has more than 20 years of finance and investment experience.  She is a frequent speaker and content provider at investment conferences and publications worldwide. She founded Private Capital Investments, LLC while she was working in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2009, when she realized there was a need for personalized investment services for family offices beyond typical brokers, bankers, or wealth managers.

Katherine has worked internally and as an advisor to 8 family offices and 4 billionaires through her firm, Private Capital Investments, LLC. She serves as Director and Board Member for Nottingham Spirk Family Office, and her past roles include Simon Group Holdings, Eden Capital, PEX Global, and Wedge Alternatives. She spent 7 years in Switzerland, where she was a Managing Director at Palladio Alternative Research and Senior Analyst and Investment Committee Member for a family office’s $3.5 billion investment portfolio. She is an early-stage Angel Investor, a member of Citrine Angels, and is on the investment committee for University Impact, a social impact Venture Capital fund. Katherine is an advisor to several start-ups and focuses on female and diverse founders, as well as technology, medtech, consumer, and impact-related early-stage venture companies. 

Katherine received her MBA from Fordham University and her BS in Psychology from the University of Maryland. Her Board member activities include serving on the Climate Tech Founder’s Fund Oversight Committee, as Chair of the ACG New York Family Office Committee, as a Board Member of ACG NY, and on the Family Office Advisory Board of TriState Capital. Her past philanthropic volunteer activities include serving as Global Co-Chair of The Guild, on the Philanthropy and Education Committees of 100 Women in Finance, and on the Fordham MBA Overseers Board.