He most recently served as a senior director in Butterfly Equity’s portfolio operations group.
The selected firm will serve for an initial one-year period beginning Jan. 1.
CIO and COO Amy McGarrity will serve as the plan’s interim executive director while the search is conducted.
The search is being conducted in anticipation of the Dec. 31 contract expiration of incumbent Nationwide Retirement Solutions.
The commitment represents a new relationship for the plan.
The plan replaced both its passive equity and fixed-income mandates with Vanguard Group after receiving an annual share class review in February.
The plan liquidated its inhouse passive global equity mandate and made $1.6 billion in total commitments in April.
The fund will make pre-seed and seed venture capital investments in sectors like artificial intelligence.
The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter.
The new hire will report to CIO Sriram Lakshminarayanan.