Steven A. Denning, MBA ’78

Chairman, General Atlantic LLC

Steven A. Denning is the chairman of General Atlantic LLC, a firm he joined in 1980 and has helped build into a leading global growth equity firm with $30 billion in assets under management and 14 offices worldwide.

Steve joined GA after working with McKinsey & Co.. He received an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1978. Prior to attending business school, Steve served for six years in the U.S. Navy, where he also earned an MS degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He received a BS from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1970.

Steve is a member of the boards of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Park Foundation, College Advising Corps, the New York Regional Plan Association, the Markle Foundation, and Blue Meridian Partners, Inc. and is vice chairman of the board of trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the board of trustees of the Bridgespan Group. He is chairman of the Global Advisory Council to the president, the Advisory Council of the Freeman Spogli Institute, and the Natural Capital Advisory Council, all at Stanford University, and is a member of the Knight-Hennessy Scholar Program Advisory Board, the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute Advisory Council, and the Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council.

Steve is former chairman of the board of trustees of Stanford University and former co-chair of the board of directors of The Nature Conservancy (TNC). He is emeritus chairman of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council, and an emeriti trustee of The Brookings Institution, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Georgia Tech Foundation. Steve was formerly a trustee of the National Parks Conservation Society and a former member of the board of the McKinsey Investment Office Advisory Council, the Georgia Tech Foundation and National Advisory Board, the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University Advisory Board, the Cancer Research Institute, and the Connecticut Science Center.

Steve grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. He and his wife, Roberta, currently reside in Greenwich, Connecticut, and San Francisco. They have two children, Robert and Carrie.