Steven A. Denning
Chairman
General Atlantic, LLC
Steven Denning is the chairman of General Atlantic, LLC.
General Atlantic focuses exclusively on investing globally in businesses that either provide information technology products or services, or use IT to transform the underlying value proposition. The firm has over $10 billion in capital under management. General Atlantic has invested in more than 150 companies and has current holdings in about 50 companies. General Atlantic has offices in Greenwich, New York, Palo Alto, London, DŸsseldorf, Hong Kong, and Mumbai.
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 Corporation and several General Atlantic public and private portfolio companies. He is also a member of the board of trustees of Stanford University, the advisory board of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University in Beijing, vice chairman of the National Parks Conservation Association, a director of the American Museum of Natural History, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a trustee of the Connecticut Science Center. He was previously a trustee of the Georgia Tech Foundation and a director of the Nature Conservancy of Wyoming and of New York.
Mr. Denning resides in Greenwich, Connecticut, and is married to Roberta Bowman, a 1978 graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a 1975 graduate of Stanford University. They have two children.
