EVAN L. JONES currently manages the Direct Investments portfolio for Duke University's $18 billion endowment. Before joining Duke University, where he has taught Entrepreneurship and Investment Management for more than two decades, Jones was co-founder and portfolio manager of Brightleaf Capital, founder and CEO of TSI Soccer, and an investment banking analyst at Prudential- Bache Capital Funding in New York. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.