Steven A. Denning
Chairman
General Atlantic, LLC
Steven Denning is the chairman of General Atlantic LLC.
General Atlantic is a global private equity firm focusing exclusively on providing capital and strategic support for growth companies. The firm has over $13 billion in capital under management. General Atlantic has invested in more than 160 companies and has current holdings in about 50 companies. General Atlantic has offices in Greenwich, New York, Palo Alto, São Paulo, London, Dusseldorf, Hong Kong, Beijing 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.
Mr. Denning is a director of the Thomson Reuters 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, and the board of trustees of the Brookings Institution. He is vice chairman of the board of the American Museum of Natural History. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the McKinsey Investment Office Advisory Council, the board of governors of the Partnership for Public Service, and the board of directors of The Nature Conservancy and The Bridgespan Group. He previously was a trustee of the Georgia Tech Foundation and the Connecticut Science Center and was a former chairman of the GSB Advisory Council.
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: Robert, a graduate of Columbia University (2006), London School of Economics (2007) and a current student at the GSB (Class of 2011); and Carrie, a graduate of Stanford University (AB 2008; MA 2009).