Speaker Biographies
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Speaker Biographies Patrick S. Chung ’04 Patrick is a founding partner of Xfund, an early-stage venture fund founded by Accel Partners, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), and Harvard University (www.xfund.com). Prior to joining Xfund full-time, Patrick was a partner at NEA and led the firm’s consumer and seed investing practices. He is a director of 23andMe, Curalate, Euclid, Fanhattan, Lytro, MeCommerce, Philo, and Ravel Law, and is actively involved with Coursera, CrowdMed, IFTTT, Rock Health, and Upworthy. Past investments include Pulse (acquired by LinkedIn), Loopt (acquired by Green Dot), GoodGuide (acquired by Underwriters Laboratories), Xfire (acquired by Viacom), and Xoom (NASDAQ: XOOM). Prior to joining NEA, Patrick helped to grow ZEFER, an Internet services firm (acquired by NEC) to more than $100 million in annual revenues and more than 700 people across six global offices. Prior to ZEFER, Patrick was with McKinsey & Company, where he specialized in hardware, software, and services companies. Patrick received a joint JD-MBA degree from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, where he served as an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Patrick was a Commonwealth Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned a Master of Science degree. Patrick earned his A.B. degree from Harvard College in Environmental Science. He is a member of the New York and Massachusetts bars, and a member of the Committee to Visit Harvard College. Bryan C. Cressey ’76 Bryan C. Cressey is a successful pioneer in the field of private equity investing. He is co-founder of private equity firms GTCR, and Cressey and Company, which manage several billion dollars of private capital. Mr. Cressey has been pictured and featured in Time Magazine and Fortune Magazine, and is asked to speak nationwide on healthcare and private equity investing. Mr. Cressey is an acknowledged expert in healthcare, where he has invested for 30 years. He is well known for his health care investing expertise, and his firms have been early investors in two of the six publicly traded hospital companies in the U.S. today. He serves as Chairman of a New York Stock Exchange company, Belden, and Director of several others, and has been elected to Chicago’s Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame. Mr. Cressey holds a JD from Harvard Law School, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BA in Economics from the University of Washington, Phi Beta Kappa. He and his wife, Christy, recently chaired the Parents’ Council of Reed College in Portland, Oregon. They have three children: Monique (b. 1981), Charlotte (b. 1984), and Alicia (b. 1985). Lawrence Golub ’84 Lawrence Golub is the Chief Executive Officer of Golub Capital, a nationally recognized credit asset manager with an award-winning middle market lending business. Golub Capital has over $10 billion of capital under management. The firm underwrites and syndicates first lien loans up to $500 million and provides buy-and-hold products up to $250 million, which include one-stop financings (through the Firm’s proprietary GOLD facility), senior, second lien and subordinated debt, preferred stock, and co-investment equity. Golub Capital has been #1 in five out of the past six years from 2009 through 1H 2014 for senior secured loans of up to $100 million for leveraged buyouts. Previously, Mr. Golub was a Managing Director of Bankers Trust Company. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director of Wasserstein Perella where he established the firm's capital markets group and debt restructuring practice. Mr. Golub started his career at Allen & Company Incorporated where he engaged in private equity, leveraged finance, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Golub serves as a director of the Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT). Mr. Golub is active in charitable and civic organizations. He is one of three private members of the Financial Control Board of the State of New York, President of the Harvard University JD-MBA Alumni Association, a member of the Harvard University Committee on University Resources, and a member of the Harvard NeuroDiscovery Advisory Council. Mr. Golub and his family actively support medical research to advance treatments for Parkinson’s Disease at several leading institutions. Mr. Golub was a White House Fellow and served for fifteen years as Treasurer of the White House Fellows Foundation. He was Chairman of Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a non-profit developer and manager of low- income housing in the Bronx. He served for fifteen years as a trustee of Montefiore Medical Center, the university hospital of the Albert Einstein Medical School. He also served for six years as a trustee of Horace Mann School and for five years on the Harvard University Committee for Science and Engineering. Andrew Klaber ’10 Andrew Klaber is an investor at Paulson & Company, where he makes investment recommendations across industries and the capital structure. Since 2002 he has served as the president and founder of Even Ground (www.evenground.org), an international non-profit that annually provides more than 700 children who have been orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS with academic scholarships, basic health care, and nutrition in South Africa and Uganda. Originally from Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Andrew graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa president from Yale College, where he rowed on the Yale lightweight crew (2002 national champions). He earned Master of Science degrees in Financial Economics and Economic History from Oxford as a Marshall Scholar. Klaber is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Term Member Program, David Rockefeller Fellows Program, Economic Club of New York, and New York State Bar. Andrew serves on the Dean's Visiting Committee at Harvard Law School and recently co-chaired his 5-year HLS reunion. Martha Minow Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Martha Minow is the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School where she has taught since 1981. An expert in human rights with a focus on members of racial and religious minorities and women, children, and persons with disabilities, her scholarship also has addressed private military contractors, management of mass torts, transitional justice, and law, culture, and social change. She has published over 150 articles and her books include In Brown’s Wake: Legacies of America’s Educational Landmark (2010); Partners, Not Rivals, Privatization and the Public Good (2002); and Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence (1998); she is co-editor of law school casebooks on civil procedure, and on gender and the law. She has delivered more than 70 named or endowed lectures and keynote addresses. Following nomination by President Obama and confirmation by the Senate, she serves as vice-chair of the board of the Legal Services Corporation and co-chair of its Pro Bono Task Force. She previously chaired the board of directors for the Revson Foundation (New York) and now serves on the boards of the MacArthur Foundation, the Covenant Foundation, and other nonprofit organizations. She is a former member of the board of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, the Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center, and former chair of the Scholar’s Board of Facing History and Ourselves. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences since 1992, Minow has also been a senior fellow of Harvard’s Society of Fellows, a member of Harvard University Press Board of Syndics, a senior fellow and twice acting director of what is now Harvard’s Safra Foundation Center on Ethics, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society. She served on the Independent International Commission Kosovo and helped to launch Imagine Co- existence, a program of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, to promote peaceful development in post- conflict societies. Her five-year partnership with the federal Department of Education and the Center for Applied Special Technology worked to increase access to the curriculum for students with disabilities and resulted in both legislative initiatives and a voluntary national standard opening access to curricular materials for individuals with disabilities. She has worked on the Divided Cities initiative which is building an alliance of global cities dealing with ethnic, religious, or political divisions. Minow co-chaired the Law School’s curricular reform committee from 2003 to 2006, an effort that led to significant innovation in the first-year curriculum as well as new programs of study for second- and third-year J.D. students. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Minow received her law degree at Yale Law School before serving as a law clerk to Judge David Bazelon and Justice Thurgood Marshall. A member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, her awards include the Sacks-Freund Teaching Award; the Holocaust Center Award; the Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal; Trinity College History Society Gold Medal; and seven honorary doctorates. Nitin Nohria George F. Baker Professor of Business Administration and Dean of the Faculty, Harvard Business School Nitin Nohria became the tenth dean of Harvard Business School on 1 July 2010. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit. As Dean, building on input from faculty, students, staff, and alumni, he has identified five priorities for Harvard Business School: innovation in the School's educational programs, beginning with the MBA Program; intellectual ambition that advances ideas with impact in practice; continued internationalization, through building a global intellectual footprint; creating a culture of inclusion, where every member of the community can do their best work in support of the School's mission; and fostering a culture of integration within HBS and across Harvard University that acts as a catalyst for entrepreneurship.