Chairman
General Atlantic, LLC

Steven Denning is the chairman of General Atlantic LLC.

General Atlantic is a leading global growth capital firm, focused exclusively on investing in growth companies around the world. The firm has almost $20 billion in capital under management. General Atlantic has invested in over 200 companies and has current holdings in about 50 companies.  General Atlantic has offices in Greenwich, New York, Palo Alto, São Paulo, London, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Beijing and Singapore.

Mr. Denning joined General Atlantic in 1980, after working with McKinsey & Company.  He received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1978.  Prior to business school, Mr. Denning served six years in the U.S. Navy, where he also obtained an MS degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.  He received a BS from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1970.

He is a director of the Thomson Reuters Corporation and several General Atlantic public and private portfolio companies.  He is currently a member of the board of trustees of Stanford University, and was elected to be chairman of the board of trustees effective July 2012.  He is co-chair of the board of directors of The Nature Conservancy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the McKinsey Investment Office Advisory Council, the board of trustees of the Bridgespan Group and the Georgia Tech Advisory Board.  He is an honorary trustee of The Brookings Institution, where he served on the Board and was a member of the Executive Committee, and also the American Museum of Natural History, where he served as Vice Chairman of the Board.  He is Emeritus Chairman of the National Parks Conservation Association.  He was a member of the Advisory Board of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University and the Georgia Tech Foundation.

Mr. Denning resides in Greenwich, Connecticut, and is married to Roberta Bowman (Stanford AB ’75, MBA ’78).  They have two children, Robert (Columbia ’06, Stanford MBA ’11) and Carrie (Stanford BA ’08, MA ’09).