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Yale Corporation
The Yale Corporation, officially The President and Fellows of Yale College, is the governing body of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Assembly of corporation The Corporation comprises 19 members: * Three ex officio members: the President of the University, the Governor, and the Lieutenant Governor of the State of Connecticut Connecticut ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York (state), New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. .... * Ten "Successor Trustees" who elect their own successors. * Six Alumni Fellows who are elected by the body of Yale alumni. While Article 8 Section 3 of the Constitution of the State of Connecticut recognizes a 1792 Act of the Connecticut General Assembly, which established the governor, lieutenant governor, and six members of the State Senate as ex officio members of the Corporation, an 1871 act of ...
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Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Yale was established as the Collegiate School in 1701 by Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalist clergy of the Connecticut Colony. Originally restricted to instructing ministers in theology and sacred languages, the school's curriculum expanded, incorporating humanities and sciences by the time of the American Revolution. In the 19th century, the college expanded into graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first Doctor of Philosophy, PhD in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887. Yale's faculty and student populations grew rapidly after 1890 due to the expansion of the physical campus and its scientif ...
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Ned Lamont
Edward Miner Lamont Jr. ( ; born January 3, 1954) is an American businessman and politician serving since 2019 as the 89th governor of Connecticut. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he served as a Greenwich, Connecticut, Greenwich Board of selectmen, selectman from 1987 to 1989, and was the party's nominee for the United States Senate in 2006 United States Senate election in Connecticut, 2006, losing to incumbent Joe Lieberman. Lamont ran for governor in 2010 Connecticut gubernatorial election, 2010 but lost the Democratic primary to former Stamford, Connecticut, Stamford Mayor of Stamford, Connecticut, mayor Dannel Malloy, who won the general election. He ran again in 2018 Connecticut gubernatorial election, 2018, winning the nomination and defeating Republican Bob Stefanowski in the general election. He faced Stefanowski again in 2022 Connecticut gubernatorial election, 2022, defeating him by a wider margin. As governor, Lamont signed legislati ...
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Hillhouse Investment
Hillhouse Investment Management Ltd. is a global private equity firm with an East Asian heritage. Hillhouse was founded by Lei Zhang in 2005 with initial seed capital from the Yale University endowment and invests across East Asia, Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe. Hillhouse has Asian offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai with additional international offices in New York City and London. Hillhouse's assets under management ("AUM") were US$73.3 billion as of July 2021. In October 2021, Hillhouse raised US$18 billion for its fifth flagship private equity fund, breaking the previous record set by KKR's US$15 billion pan-Asia private equity fund raised that same year. Hillhouse manages capital for institutional clients such as university endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and family offices. Hillhouse is a long-term fundamental research-driven equity investor, investing in all equity stages in sectors including consumer, heal ...
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Zhang Lei (investor)
Zhang Lei (born 1972) is an investor and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of Hillhouse Investment, the largest private equity firm operating in Asia as of October 2021. Early life and education Lei received a scholarship to Renmin University of China, where he received a bachelor's degree in economics in 1994. In 1999, Lei took a class taught by David F. Swensen, who was the chief investment officer of the Yale Endowment. Swensen became a mentor to Lei, leading to Lei interning at the Yale Endowment, his first position in finance. During his studies, Lei interned at the Yale University Endowment. Lei translated Swensen's book, ''Pioneering Portfolio Management, An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment'' (2000), into Chinese while studying at Yale, which, according to the ''Financial Times,'' involved creating new Mandarin words for "endowment" and "fiduciary". Lei's investing philosophy is largely based on Swensen's teachings. In 2002, he received an ...
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Albright Stonebridge Group
Albright Stonebridge Group, part of DGA Group, is a global business strategy firm based in Washington, D.C., United States. It was created in 2009 through the merger of international consulting firms The Albright Group, founded in 2001 by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and Stonebridge International, founded in 2001 by former US National Security Advisor Sandy Berger. In 2021, Albright Stonebridge Group became a founding member of Dentons Global Advisors. Dentons Global Advisors rebranded to DGA Group in 2024. The firm advises clients on international policy and global markets. Its senior counselors include Joschka Fischer, James Steinberg, Pär Nuder, Carla Anderson Hills, and Thomas R. Pickering. Several firm alumni joined the presidential administration of Joe Biden Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party (U ...
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Boston Medical Center
Boston Medical Center (BMC) is a non-profit 514-bed academic medical center and safety-net hospital in the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. As part of the Boston Medical Center Health System, the hospital provides primary and specialty care to residents of the Greater Boston area. It is also the principal teaching hospital of Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and home to 66 residency and fellowship training programs. History Boston City Hospital was the first municipal hospital in the United States, opening in 1864. In 1960 Boston University's Medical School founded the Boston University Medical Center in the South End neighborhood to provide residency programs and research opportunities for students and faculty. Two years later Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals president Jerome Preston and Boston University president Harold C. Case announced a merger of Boston University Medical Center and the creation of a new board of trust ...
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Kathleen E
Kathleen may refer to: People * Kathleen (given name) * Kathleen (singer), Canadian pop singer Places * Kathleen, Alberta, Canada * Kathleen, Georgia, United States * Kathleen, Florida, United States * Kathleen High School (Lakeland, Florida), United States * Kathleen, Western Australia, Western Australia * Kathleen Island, Tasmania, Australia * Kathleen Lumley College, South Australia * Mary Kathleen, Queensland, former mining settlement in Australia Other * ''Kathleen'' (film), a 1941 American film directed by Harold S. Bucquet * '' The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics'' (1892), second poetry collection of William Butler Yeats * Kathleen Ferrier Award, competition for opera singers * Kathleen Mitchell Award, Australian literature prize for young authors * Plan Kathleen Plan Kathleen, sometimes referred to as the Artus Plan, was a military plan for the invasion of Northern Ireland by Nazi Germany, sanctioned in 1940 by Stephen Hayes (Irish republ ...
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Guardian Media Group
Guardian Media Group plc (GMG) is a British-based mass media company owning various media operations including ''The Guardian'', and formerly ''The Observer''. The group is wholly owned by the Scott Trust Limited, which exists to secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity. The Group's annual report (for the year ending 2 April 2023) indicated that the Scott Trust Endowment Fund was valued at £1.24 billion, while in 2021 it was valued at £1.14 billion. History The company was founded as the Manchester Guardian Ltd. in 1907 when C.P. Scott bought ''The Manchester Guardian'' (founded in 1821) from the estate of his cousin Edward Taylor. It became the Manchester Guardian and Evening News Ltd when it bought out the ''Manchester Evening News'' in 1924, later becoming the Guardian and Manchester Evening News Ltd to reflect the change in the morning paper's title. It adopted its current name in 1993. In 1991, it had a 20% stake in a consort ...
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Annette Thomas
Annette Thomas (born 1965) is an American-born publishing executive specializing in science publishing, who lives in the United Kingdom. In 2020, she was named chief executive of the Guardian Media Group, but left the role in June 2021. Early life Thomas was born in Washington, D.C. in 1965, and grew up near Washington. Her African American father worked as a pharmacist at the Food and Drug Administration; her mother is German. She attended the Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Greenbelt, Maryland. She has a degree in biochemistry and biophysics from Harvard University and a PhD in cell biology and neuroscience from Yale University. Career In 1993, immediately after finishing her graduate work, Thomas moved to London to begin her career in publishing as a cell biology editor at ''Nature''. She served as the founding editor of ''Nature Cell Biology''. She became publisher (1999) and then managing director of the Nature Publishing Group in 2000. She was responsible for founding the '' ...
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Greylock Partners
Greylock Partners is one of the oldest venture capital firms, founded in 1965, with committed capital of over $3.5 billion under management. The firm focuses on early-stage companies in consumer and enterprise software. History Greylock was founded in 1965 in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Bill Elfers and Dan Gregory, joined shortly thereafter by Charlie Waite. Elfers and Waite had both worked at American Research and Development Corporation. The original capital of $10 million was committed by a group of six families. The company opened a second fund in 1973. The company opened its first office in Silicon Valley in 1999. Greylock closed its 12th fund in 2005 with $500 million. In 2009, Greylock relocated its headquarters from the original Boston location to Silicon Valley. Also in 2009, Greylock opened its 13th fund with $575 million. In 2011, the 13th fund was increased to $1 billion. The company organized a 14th fund in 2013 with $1 billion. The co ...
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David Sze
David Sze is an American entrepreneur, investor, and managing partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners. He was named on ''Forbes'''s Midas List in 2013 and 2014. He is a member of the Northern Lights Venture Capital Board of Advisors and oversees Greylock’s investments in those funds. He is also a Trustee of Yale University and Rockefeller University. He holds a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Stanford University. Career Excite, Inc. Before joining Greylock Partners in 2000, Sze was SVP of Product Strategy at ''Excite'' and then ''Excite@Home''. Sze's Prior roles at Excite included general manager of Excite.com and vice president of Content and Programming for the Excite Network. Greylock Partners Sze joined Greylock in 2000 as a result of his involvement in consumer companies. Greylock moved their headquarters from Boston to Silicon Valley’s Sand Hill Road. Sze led early investments in companies including Facebook, Pandora, LinkedIn, Workday, an ...
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