GENERAL ATLANTIC - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Managing Director and Head of General Atlantic 's Enterprise Technology
- Managing Director, Head of Enterprise Technology
- Managing Director, Head of Enterprise Technology New York
Aaron Goldman is a Managing Director and Head of General Atlantic's Enterprise Technology sector, where he leads the firms efforts around enterprise and vertical software and innovative technologies. Prior to his current role, Aaron Co-Headed Financial Services where he focused on Fintech and Payments. In addition to the companies listed below Aaron has been involved in our investments in Clip, d:local, Fireblocks, Mollie, Outsystems, NYDIG, PingPong, Riskified, Spendesk, Strike and Visma. Prior to joining General Atlantic in 2007, Aaron was part of the growth equity arm of the Fremont Group in San Francisco where he made several investments in the Internet, communications and healthcare sectors. While at the Fremont Group, he served as President and Chief Financial Officer of LPL Technologies, a growth stage company focused on the early diagnosis of ovarian cancer. Prior to that, Aaron was an Analyst in Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette's Leveraged Finance group.
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor
- Senior Advisor Munich
Achim Berg is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic, providing strategic support and advice to the firm's EMEA investment team and portfolio companies. He also serves as President of BITKOM, Germany's Federal Association of Information Technology, Telecommunications, and New Media. Before joining General Atlantic in 2016, Achim was Chief Executive Officer of arvato AG, a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann SE. Earlier in his career, he held a number of senior management positions at Microsoft, including Corporate Vice President of the Windows Phone division, General Manager of Microsoft Germany, and Area Vice President of Microsoft International. Prior to that, Achim served on the Executive Board of T-Com and worked at leading technology companies, including Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH, Dell Deutschland GmbH, and Bull AG.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Managing Director, Global Head of New Investment Sourcing & Co - Head of Emerging Growth New York
Alex Crisses is a Managing Director at General Atlantic and focuses on investments in the firm's Technology sector. Alex also serves as Global Head of New Investment Sourcing, leading the firm's thematic sourcing program, and co-heads its Emerging Growth Platform. Before joining General Atlantic in 2016, Alex was a Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners where he focused on Software and Internet investments globally. Earlier in his career, Alex worked in the Investment Banking division at Credit Suisse where he focused on global energy and power.
Job Titles:
- Allianz Germany, Board Member
Job Titles:
- Managing Director and Global Head of General Atlantic 's Consumer
- Managing Director, Global Head of Consumer New York
Andrew Crawford is a Managing Director and Global Head of General Atlantic's Consumer sector. Andy serves on the firm's Management Committee and is Chairman of the Portfolio Committee. Before joining General Atlantic in 2014, he was a senior member of Advent International's investment team where he focused on the Retail & Consumer sector.
Job Titles:
- Co - President, Managing Director and Chairman of General Atlantic 's Global Technology Group
- Co - President, Managing Director, Chairman of Global Technology Group New York
Anton Levy is Co-President, Managing Director and Chairman of General Atlantic's Global Technology Group. Anton also serves on the firm's Management, Investment and Portfolio Committees. In addition to the companies mentioned below, Anton has led General Atlantic's investments in leading technology companies such as Alibaba, CrowdStrike, Facebook, Slack and Snapchat and co-led investments in Adyen and Bytedance. Anton has been named to the Forbes Midas List of top investors each year from 2014 to 2022. Before joining General Atlantic in 1998, Anton was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley where he focused on the technology sector.
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor
- Senior Advisor New York
Cathy Beaudoin is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic, providing strategic support and advice to the firm's investment teams and portfolio companies. Before joining General Atlantic in 2017, Cathy served as President of Amazon Fashion for eight years. During this time, she brought hundreds of reputable brands to Amazon, led Amazon's 2012 sponsorship of the Met Ball, the opening of Amazon's 40,000-square-foot photo studio in Williamsburg, New York, and a multi-year partnership with The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) to sponsor New York Fashion Week: Men's. Prior to Amazon, she served as General Manager of Gap's Piperlime, the e-commerce shoe platform she founded in 2005. While at Gap, she held a number of senior marketing positions across the company's Old Navy and Banana Republic brands. Cathy began her career at Ogilvy One Worldwide.
Job Titles:
- Head of Technology
- Managing Director
- Managing Director, Head of Technology for EMEA London
Chris Caulkin is a Managing Director and Head of Technology for EMEA focusing on General Atlantic's investments in the Technology sector. Prior to joining General Atlantic in 2011, Chris was an Analyst and Associate at Warburg Pincus in London for four years where he concentrated on investments in the media, technology, and business services sectors. Before Warburg Pincus, Chris was an Associate at The Boston Consulting Group in London where he worked on a range of media, technology, and financial services projects.
Chuck Feeney, co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers, established General Atlantic in 1980 to invest in high-growth businesses, support visionary founders like himself and fund the global charitable pursuits of the Atlantic Philanthropies, to which he has donated virtually all of his wealth.
Job Titles:
- Vice Chairman
- Vice Chairman New York
Dave Hodgson is Vice Chairman of General Atlantic and has been a member of the investment team for more than 30 years, with extensive experience across the firm's sectors. After joining General Atlantic as its third investment professional in 1982, he helped build the firm with a singular vision of supporting entrepreneurs as they work to grow their businesses. From the outset, Dave's mission has been to partner with strong growth companies led by exceptional management teams to help their organizations become market leaders.
David Mangum is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic; he brings significant expertise in global financial technology, payments solutions and software. Prior to joining General Atlantic in 2019, David was President and Chief Operating Officer of Global Payments Inc. (GPN). David was instrumental in leading the transformation of Global Payments from a payment processor to a worldwide provider of technology services and software. Prior to that, David was GPN's Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. David also previously held executive leadership roles at Fiserv, Inc. and CheckFree Corporation.
Job Titles:
- Advisory Director
- Advisory Director New York
David Rosenstein is an Advisory Director at General Atlantic. He previously served as a Managing Director and as General Counsel of General Atlantic for over 23 years. While serving as General Counsel, he focused on equity investments and dispositions for the firm's growth investments, capital partner matters, compliance and other general firm matters. Before joining General Atlantic in 1997, David was an Associate at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, based in New York.
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor
- Senior Advisor New York
Dr. Judson Linville is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic, bringing more than 30 years of international leadership experience at the intersection of financial services, technology, media, and marketing. Before joining General Atlantic in 2019, Dr. Linville was most recently Chief Executive Officer of Global Cards and Consumer Services at Citigroup, which he joined in 2010. While there, he led the largest global credit card franchise, representing $13 billion in revenue and 55 million individual and small business customers across 18 countries. He also ran digital, marketing, and data/analytics efforts across all of Citigroup's consumer lines of business. Dr. Linville also served as a member of the Citigroup Operating Committee and the Citi Consumer Management Committee
Prior to Citigroup, Dr. Linville spent more than two decades at American Express, where he held leadership roles including President and CEO of Consumer Services, President of the U.S. Consumer Card Services Group, and President of Corporate Services. While at American Express, he led the Consumer Card, Membership Rewards, and Consumer Travel businesses in the U.S., as well as the Prepaid Card and Travelers Cheques businesses on a global basis, representing over 50% of the company's earnings. He was also a member of the American Express Operating Committee, a six-person senior management team that set the strategic direction for the company alongside the CEO.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Senior Advisor
- Senior Advisor New York
Dr. Michael Spence is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic and Chairman of the GA Global Growth Institute. His areas of focus include economic growth and policy in emerging markets, the influence of leadership on economic growth, and digitally enabled growth patterns.
Michael is a Nobel Laureate and serves as a co-chair with Joseph Stiglitz on the Commission on Global Economic Transformation; is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; a Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the Asia Global Institute in Hong Kong; and is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the author of The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World.
From 2006 to 2010, Michael was the Chairman of The Commission on Growth and Development, an independent international body that analyzed opportunities for global economic growth, with a special focus on emerging economies. Michael is a Rhodes Scholar, and was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 for his contributions to the analysis of markets with informational gaps and asymmetries, and the dynamics of information flow. Previously, Michael taught at Harvard University, where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Stanford University, serving as Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor
- Senior Advisor Palo Alto
Dr. Mohit Kaushal is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic, providing strategic support and advice to the firm's investment teams and portfolio companies in the Healthcare sector, drawing on his extensive career in investing, clinical medicine, academia, and public policy. Mohit served as a member of the White House Health IT task force during the Obama Administration and built and led the first dedicated healthcare team at the Federal Communications Commission. He serves on the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act Workgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee and the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, advising Health and Human Services on data access and use. Mohit is also an ER physician, an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, and continues to be active within public policy as a Scholar in Residence at the newly created Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy. Earlier in his career, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Brookings Institution.
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor
- Senior Advisor Mexico City
Enrique Castillo is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic, drawing on more than 38 years of financial sector experience to provide strategic support and advice to the firm and its portfolio companies in Latin America. Enrique is also a Senior Partner at Ventura Capital Privado. Before joining General Atlantic in 2012, he was Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Ixe Grupo Financiero from 2000 to 2013 and served as President of the Mexican Banking Association (Asociación de Bancos de México) from 2007 to 2009.
Job Titles:
- Head
- Managing Director
- Managing Director, Head of China Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai
Eric Zhang is a Managing Director and Head of General Atlantic's business in China and also serves on the firm's Management Committee. Before joining the firm in 2016, Eric was a Global Partner and Managing Director at The Carlyle Group from 2006 to 2016 where he focused on investments in Asia. Previously, he was Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions at Credit Suisse in Hong Kong, and prior to that, he was a Vice President in the Investment Banking division at China International Capital Corporation Limited in Beijing.
Job Titles:
- Advisory Director
- Advisory Director New York
Frank Brown is an Advisory Director at General Atlantic. He previously served as a Managing Director and Chief Risk Officer, leading the firm's global risk management program. Prior to that, he served as Chief Operating Officer for nine years. Before joining General Atlantic in 2011, Frank served as Dean of INSEAD, a leading international business school, from 2006 to 2011. Under his leadership, the school increased participation of female students in the M.B.A. program by more than 50%, and established the Abu Dhabi campus, the Blue Ocean Strategy Institute, and the Social Innovation Centre. Prior to INSEAD, Frank had a distinguished 26-year career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, including leading its $3.5 billion Advisory Services practice. Frank is the author of The Global Business Leader: Practical Advice for Success in a Transcultural Marketplace, and is a frequent speaker on leadership topics.
Job Titles:
- Co - President
- Head
- Managing Director
- Co - President, Managing Director, Head of EMEA London
Gabriel Caillaux is Co-President, Managing Director and Head of General Atlantic's business in EMEA. He is also a member of the firm's Management, Investment and Portfolio Committees. Since joining the firm in 2004, Gabriel has helped expand the firm's investment focus across the greater European region to include Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He focuses on investments in the Financial Services and Technology sectors. Before joining General Atlantic, Gabriel worked in the telecoms, media & technology division at Merrill Lynch in London and New York.
Job Titles:
- Director
- MANAGING DIRECTOR OF GENERAL ATLANTIC LL
Job Titles:
- Managing Director, Global Head of Capital Partnering New York
Graves Tompkins is a Managing Director and Global Head of Capital Partnering for General Atlantic. He serves on the firm's Management, Portfolio, and Operating Committees, as well as the Diversity & Inclusion Council. Previously, he was a member of the firm's Healthcare and Financial Services sector teams.
Prior to joining General Atlantic in 2008, Graves worked in the Merchant Banking division at Goldman Sachs, where he focused on principal investments across a broad range of sectors, and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Graves is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, a member of the Leadership Council at Harvard's Center for Public Leadership, and he was previously a David Rockefeller Fellow through the New York City Partnership.
Henri de Castries is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic, providing strategic support and advice to the firm's investment teams and portfolio companies in the EMEA region. Before joining General Atlantic in 2017, Henri served as Chairman and CEO of AXA, spending a total of 27 years at the company. During this time, he oversaw multiple merger and acquisitions transactions including AXA's acquisition of Group UAP in 1997 and Winterthur Group in 2007. Prior to AXA, he served in the French Treasury Department, during which time he was appointed to oversee foreign exchange markets and balance of payments.
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor
- Senior Advisor Singapore
John Prasetio is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic, providing strategic support and advice to the firm's investment teams and portfolio companies in Southeast Asia with a particular focus on Indonesia. John joined General Atlantic in 2017 and recently served as the Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary of Indonesia to the Republic of Korea. He is currently President Commissioner of the Indonesia Stock Exchange and Senior Advisor of Crowe Horwath Indonesia. John has held a number of senior executive and leadership positions at corporations, government institutions, and leading business associations. He began his career as a Faculty Lecturer in Economics at the University of Indonesia.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director, Global Head of Technology Buyouts New York
Jonathan Durham ("JD") is a Managing Director and Global Head of Technology Buyouts at General Atlantic, overseeing the firm's continued expansion into corporate buyouts in the technology sector and tech-enabled business models globally. Prior to General Atlantic, JD spent more than 16 years at Silver Lake, where he worked on significant capital commitments in areas including software, financial technology, digital marketing and education technology.
Job Titles:
- Director
- MANAGING DIRECTOR OF GENERAL ATLANTIC LL
Job Titles:
- Managing Director, Head of Capital Markets New York
Justin Kotzin is a Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets at General Atlantic. Justin serves on the firm's Portfolio Committee, and is also part of General Atlantic's Operations Group, providing strategic support and advice to the firm's investment team and portfolio companies. Before joining General Atlantic in 2018, he worked at Morgan Stanley, most recently serving as Managing Director in the Leveraged & Acquisition Finance Syndicate group. In this role, he executed high yield and leveraged loan transactions across various sectors. Prior to that, he worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, most recently serving as Vice President in the Leveraged Finance Capital Markets group.
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor
- Senior Advisor New York
Ken Stevens is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic, providing strategic support and advice to the firm's investment teams and portfolio companies in the Consumer sector. Ken draws on his diverse retail and consumer products background, including serving as Chairman of Too Faced, Ulta, Charlotte Russe, and Cost Plus World Market. He has also held several Chief Executive Officer or President positions at Philosophy, Tween Brands, Express, Bath and Body Works, and Taco Bell. In addition, Ken co-led McKinsey & Company's West Coast Consumer practice and held senior positons at PepsiCo.
Loek van den Boog is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic and focuses on technology. Prior to joining General Atlantic in 2019, Loek was the former Senior Vice President of EMEA for Oracle, as well as chairman of Mendix, Global Collect and Myriad. Loek will leverage his software and technology expertise and expansive network to provide strategic support and advice to the firm's investment teams and portfolio companies.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Managing Director, Head of Mexico Office Mexico City
Luis Cervantes is a Managing Director and leads General Atlantic's Mexico City office, focusing on the firm's growth investments in Mexico and across Latin America. Prior to joining General Atlantic in 2013, Luis was an Associate at Advent International where he concentrated on investments across sectors in Latin America. Previously, he was an Investment Banking Analyst at UBS in the Latin American group based in Mexico City. Luis is a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, and is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization. He also formerly served as an Adjunct Professor at Universidad Iberoamericana.
Job Titles:
- Co - President
- Head
- Managing Director
- Co - President, Managing Director, Head of Latin America New York, São Paulo
Martín Escobari is Co-President, Managing Director and Head of General Atlantic's business in Latin America. Martín is Chairman of the firm's Investment Committee and also serves on the Management and Portfolio Committees.
Before joining General Atlantic in 2012, Martín was a Managing Director at Advent International where he focused on the financial services sector. Prior to that, he was Co-Founder and CFO of Submarino.com, a leading Brazilian online retailer that went public on the Bovespa and was sold to Lojas Americanas in 2006. Martin started his career as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Managing Director, Head of Consumer for EMEA London
Melis Kahya Akar is a Managing Director at General Atlantic and leads the firm's Consumer investments across EMEA, in addition to focusing on investments in Turkey. Before joining General Atlantic in New York in 2015, Melis was a Vice President at TSG Consumer Partners where she focused on investments in the Retail and Consumer sectors. Previously, she was an Analyst in the Investment Banking division at J.P. Morgan where she concentrated on the consumer and retail sectors.
Pierre de Weck is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic, providing strategic support and advice to the firm's capital partnering efforts, investment teams, and portfolio companies. From 2002 to 2012, Pierre was Global Head of Private Wealth Management and a Group Executive Committee member at Deutsche Bank AG in London. Previously, he spent nearly 20 years with UBS AG in a number of senior executive roles including Chief Executive Officer of North America, Chief Executive Officer of Europe, member of the Group Executive Board, and Chief Executive Officer of UBS Capital. Pierre started his career with Citibank in Zurich and later in New York.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director and Global Head of General Atlantic 's Healthcare
- Managing Director, Global Head of Healthcare New York
Robbert Vorhoff is a Managing Director and Global Head of General Atlantic's Healthcare sector. He also serves on the firm's Management and Investment Committees. Before joining the firm in 2003, Robb worked at Greenhill & Co., first in the mergers and acquisitions and restructuring advisory group, then in the private equity group, Greenhill Capital Partners.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director, Co - Head of Brazil Office São Paulo
Rodrigo Catunda is a Managing Director Co-Head of General Atlantic's Brazil Office. He also focuses on the firm's investments across various sectors in Latin America. Prior to joining General Atlantic in 2011, Rodrigo was an Investment Banking Associate at J.P. Morgan in São Paulo and New York, focused on Latin America.
Job Titles:
- Head
- Managing Director
- Managing Director, Head of India & Southeast Asia Singapore
Sandeep Naik is a Managing Director and Head of General Atlantic's business in India & Southeast Asia. He is also a member of the firm's Management and Portfolio Committees. Before joining General Atlantic in 2012, Sandeep served as a Partner and Co-Head of India for Apax, leading investments in the healthcare, financial and business services and retail and consumer sectors. Earlier in his career, he was Global Marketing Manager at Medtronic Inc., a scientist at Mayo Clinic, and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. He is also the Co-Founder of InfraScan Inc., a medical device business focused on detecting bleeding inside the brain using a handheld device. Sandeep was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and has served on the Global Agenda Council of New Order of Economic Thinking.
Job Titles:
- Chairman Emeritus
- Chairman Emeritus Stamford
Steven A. Denning is Chairman Emeritus of General Atlantic and has been part of the firm since its founding in 1980. As the second investment professional at the firm, Steve helped build General Atlantic with a singular vision of supporting entrepreneurs as they work to grow their businesses. From the outset, his mission has been to partner with strong growth companies led by exceptional management teams to help their organizations become market leaders. For over three decades, Steve has helped General Atlantic become a leading global growth investment firm, today with 14 offices around the world. Steve also served on the Board of Trustees of Stanford University from 2004 to 2017, including as its Chairman from 2012 to 2017. Before joining General Atlantic, Steve worked at McKinsey & Company and served for six years in the U.S. Navy.
Job Titles:
- Advisory Director
- CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
- Company Secretary
- Director
- Advisory Director Stamford
Thomas Murphy is an Advisory Director at General Atlantic. He previously served as Chief Financial Officer. For 25 years, he served as a senior leader through some of General Atlantic's most significant growth events, including the expansion of General Atlantic's global footprint, capital base, and portfolio. Prior to joining General Atlantic, Tom was a Senior Accountant with Deloitte, where he primarily served clients in the financial services industry.
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor
- Senior Advisor New York
Todd Diener is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic, providing strategic support and advice to the firm's investment teams and portfolio companies in the Consumer sector, drawing on his extensive experience in the restaurant and hospitality industry. Before joining General Atlantic in 2017, Todd spent 28 years with Brinker International, helping Chili's, a small restaurant chain, grow into an iconic, global restaurant brand. After serving as President of Chili's for five years, he became Brinker International's Chief Operating Officer with oversight of the company's core brands, including Chili's, Corner Bakery Café, Maggiano's Little Italy, On the Border, and Romano's Macaroni Grill. Todd returned to the role of Chili's President in 2005 when the brand entered its most aggressive growth phase, building 75-125 new locations per year through the end of 2009 when he retired. Todd is also an Operating Partner at several private equity firms and performs due diligence projects for potential acquisitions.
William E. Ford - CEO, Chairman, Managing Director
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Chief Executive Officer
- Director
- MANAGING DIRECTOR
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer New York
Bill Ford is General Atlantic's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, with three decades of experience investing in and helping build leading growth companies, including IHS Markit, e*Trade, Priceline, and First Republic Bank. Bill joined General Atlantic in 1991 and became CEO in 2007. He serves as Chairman of the firm's Management Committee and is a member of the Investment, Portfolio, and Operating Committees. Under Bill's leadership, General Atlantic has expanded its global presence, increased its capital base, and deepened its capabilities to identify and partner with high-potential growth companies across multiple business sectors and geographies.