Mike Lazorik

Director, Private Equity at Teacher Retirement System of Texas

Discussion leader, Panellist

Mike Lazorik is a Director in Private Equity at the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, where he joined in 2010 to launch their co-investment program. Since then, TRS has committed over $43B into PE funds and investments and grown total PE exposure from $17B to $31B, currently representing 17% of the Trust. Presently, Mr. Lazorik serves on the PE Investment Committee and is primarily responsible for all Technology direct and co-investments across private strategies, including Digital Assets.

Prior to joining the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Mr. Lazorik served as Director of Corporate Development at BMC Software. Prior to that Mike worked in various leadership roles at Dell Technologies, including co-founding Dell Ventures, Director for the Office of the CTO and Director of Corporate Finance/ Treasury. Notably, he led the Series C in VMWare as part of Dell Ventures $1B of investments from 1999-2003, and drove the launch of Dell Financial Services during Dell’s early years as a public company. Prior to that, Mr. Lazorik worked in Fixed Income Derivatives at Lehman Brothers.

Mike received his BBA degree in Finance and Marketing from The University of Texas at Austin, while also working at Dell as one of their first Finance interns. In addition to seeking alpha through innovation, Mike is an avid wingfoiler, fly-fisherman, mountain man and lover of all things outdoors with his family in Austin, Texas.