Private Equity Program News

Charles Buaron '14 from TPG Growth joins PE Program Advisory Board

Steve Winograd `82, Managing Director of PennantPark Investment Advisers, has recently joined the Advisory Board of the Private Equity Program at Columbia Business School.

The Private Equity Program recently launched a two-part video lecture with Valerie Purdie-Vaughns who came to speak at Deal Camp in 2015 and 2016. Speaking on the subject of diverse teams, and providing an experiential exercise for the students, Professor Purdie-Vaughns shows the academic research and ideas that make diverse teams an important value-proposition for PE Firms. These sessions were sponsored by KKR.

The Private Equity Program has launched its January 2017 newsletter. Click to read entire issue.

Author: Sean Epstein '04 who works for SAP’s Private Equity team and Seth Brown works for Equinix.

The Columbia Business School community has lost an extraordinary colleague and friend in Margaret M. Cannella '76, who passed away peacefully over the Thanksgiving weekend.

Dear Columbia Business School Alumni: As a member of the finance faculty and the Director of the Private Equity Program here at the Columbia Business School, I am writing you today to ask your assistance with important research that Professor Damon Phillips, Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and I are undertaking. 

The Private Equity Program has launched its May 2016 newsletter. Highlights include the graduation, research survey for alumni, and upcoming events.

The Private Equity Program has launched its January 2016 newsletter. Highlights include the launch of a research survey for alumni, and upcoming events.    

Hythem El-Nazer EMBA `08 has recently joined the Advisory Board of the Private Equity Program at Columbia Business School.