Saturday, Jan 24, 2026
9:00am – 6:00pm
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Stanford GSB Investor Summit 2026
Initiative for Investing hosted its inaugural Investor Summit with a full day of keynotes, forums, and engagement with leading investing professionals.
Open to
Faculty
Staff
Students
Alumni
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The Stanford GSB Initiative for Investing is hosted its inaugural summit on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. This summit featured a full day of keynote conversations and expert forums with leading voices in private equity, venture capital, credit, real estate, infrastructure, and public markets. Discussions explored themes such as AI’s impact on investing, the blurring of traditional asset classes, the evolution of leadership and talent within firms, and the rise of digital assets.
The summit offered plenty of opportunities to unwind, network, and connect throughout the weekend, including optional no-host activities on the evening of Friday, Jan. 23, and in the morning on Sunday, Jan. 25.
Agenda
Event Sponsors
The Stanford GSB Initiative for Investing, established in early 2025, unites faculty, alumni, students, and industry leaders to share insights, build skills, and explore emerging investment trends and innovations. Stanford Graduate School of Business has a long history of innovation in investment education, producing the ideas and leaders that have shaped the modern financial landscape. Building on this foundation, the Initiative for Investing seeks to provide a launchpad for tomorrow’s most influential investment leaders by combining Stanford’s deep expertise in innovation, strategic leadership, and adaptive thinking.
If you have questions, email IFI.
Speakers
Global Head of Real Assets
KKR
General Partner
Brentwood Associates
Jonathan B. Berk
The A.P. Giannini Professor of Finance
Stanford GSB
Tim Bliss
Scott Brady
Lecturer in Management, Stanford GSB
Founding Partner, Innovation Endeavors
Pete Briger
Executive Chairman
Fortress Investment Group
Vice President
Pritzker Private Capital (PPC)
General Partner
Sequoia Capital
Jonathan Coslet
Founder C&S Capital, Former Chief Investment Officer
TPG Global
Partner & Head of Real Estate
Bain Capital
Founding Partner, Executive Chair and Director
TPG
Managing Partner
Leonard Green & Partners, L.P.
Ed deHaan
The MBA Class of 1963 Professor of Management
Stanford GSB
Peter M. DeMarzo
The John G. McDonald Professor of Finance
Faculty Director, Initiative for Investing
CEO & Partner
Jasper Ridge Partners
Partner
Capital International Investors
Chief Investment Officer
Makena Capital Management
Partner, Chief Executive Officer
StepStone Group LP
Managing Partner
Precursor Ventures
Executive Committee Member
D. E. Shaw & Co.
Associate Director, Initiative for Investing
Stanford GSB
Gina Jorasch
Director, Initiative for Investing
Stanford GSB
Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer
Charlesbank Capital Partners
Head of Surveyor Capital
Citadel
Jonathan Levin
The President and Bing Presidential Professor
Stanford University
Hanno Lustig
The Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance
Stanford GSB
Kevin Mak
Lecturer of Management, Stanford GSB
Director, RAIL
Fern Mandelbaum
Lecturer in Management, Stanford GSB
Managing Director, Venture Investments, Emerson Collective
DeShay McCluskey
Managing Partner
AltraVue Capital
Partner & Co-Founder
Lightspeed Venture Partners
William Mitchell
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman
Prologis
Senior Managing Director
TSG Consumer
President and CEO
Portland General Electric
Managing Director, Real Estate
Hillspire
Managing Partner & CIO
Lynwood Price Capital Management
Co-Founder and Managing Director
FPR Partners
Erik Ragatz
Lecturer in Management
Stanford GSB
VP Engineering, AI
Coatue Management
Joshua D. Rauh
The Ormond Family Professor of Finance
Stanford GSB
Chief Investment Officer
CommonSpirit Health
Deputy Head of Private Equity
Viking Global Investors
Chief Executive Officer
CyrusOne
Amit Seru
The Steven and Roberta Denning Professor of Finance
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Managing Director of Public Markets
Bayshore Global Management
Managing Partner
Sarah Smith Fund
Managing Director, Talent Management
Genstar Capital
Sarah A. Soule
Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean
Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior
Marc Stad
Founder and Managing Partner
Dragoneer Investment Group
Chief Investment Officer
Moore Foundation
Ilya A. Strebulaev
The David S. Lobel Professor of Private Equity
Stanford GSB
Vice Chairman
Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC
Founder and Chairman
TCK Investments
CEO
Stanford Management Company
Managing Partner and CIO
Augnition Global Investors
