Speaker Biographies
Patrick S. Chung ’04
Patrick is a founding partner of Xfund, an early-stage venture fund founded by Accel Partners, New
Enterprise Associates (NEA), and Harvard University (www.xfund.com). Prior to joining Xfund full-time, Patrick
was a partner at NEA and led the firm’s consumer and seed investing practices. He is a director of 23andMe,
Curalate, Euclid, Fanhattan, Lytro, MeCommerce, Philo, and Ravel Law, and is actively involved with Coursera,
CrowdMed, IFTTT, Rock Health, and Upworthy. Past investments include Pulse (acquired by LinkedIn), Loopt
(acquired by Green Dot), GoodGuide (acquired by Underwriters Laboratories), Xfire (acquired by Viacom), and
Xoom (NASDAQ: XOOM). Prior to joining NEA, Patrick helped to grow ZEFER, an Internet services firm
(acquired by NEC) to more than $100 million in annual revenues and more than 700 people across six global
offices. Prior to ZEFER, Patrick was with McKinsey & Company, where he specialized in hardware, software, and
services companies. Patrick received a joint JD-MBA degree from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law
School, where he served as an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Patrick was a Commonwealth Scholar at Oxford
University, where he earned a Master of Science degree. Patrick earned his A.B. degree from Harvard College in
Environmental Science. He is a member of the New York and Massachusetts bars, and a member of the Committee
to Visit Harvard College.
Bryan C. Cressey ’76
Bryan C. Cressey is a successful pioneer in the field of private equity investing. He is co-founder of private
equity firms GTCR, and Cressey and Company, which manage several billion dollars of private capital.
Mr. Cressey has been pictured and featured in Time Magazine and Fortune Magazine, and is asked to speak
nationwide on healthcare and private equity investing. Mr. Cressey is an acknowledged expert in healthcare, where
he has invested for 30 years. He is well known for his health care investing expertise, and his firms have been early
investors in two of the six publicly traded hospital companies in the U.S. today. He serves as Chairman of a New
York Stock Exchange company, Belden, and Director of several others, and has been elected to Chicago’s
Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame.
Mr. Cressey holds a JD from Harvard Law School, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BA in
Economics from the University of Washington, Phi Beta Kappa. He and his wife, Christy, recently chaired the
Parents’ Council of Reed College in Portland, Oregon. They have three children: Monique (b. 1981), Charlotte (b.
1984), and Alicia (b. 1985).
Lawrence Golub ’84
Lawrence Golub is the Chief Executive Officer of Golub Capital, a nationally recognized credit asset
manager with an award-winning middle market lending business. Golub Capital has over $10 billion of capital under
management. The firm underwrites and syndicates first lien loans up to $500 million and provides buy-and-hold
products up to $250 million, which include one-stop financings (through the Firm’s proprietary GOLD facility),
senior, second lien and subordinated debt, preferred stock, and co-investment equity. Golub Capital has been #1 in
five out of the past six years from 2009 through 1H 2014 for senior secured loans of up to $100 million for
leveraged buyouts.
Previously, Mr. Golub was a Managing Director of Bankers Trust Company. Prior to that, he was a
Managing Director of Wasserstein Perella where he established the firm's capital markets group and debt
restructuring practice. Mr. Golub started his career at Allen & Company Incorporated where he engaged in private
equity, leveraged finance, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Golub serves as a director of the Empire State Realty
Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT).
Mr. Golub is active in charitable and civic organizations. He is one of three private members of the
Financial Control Board of the State of New York, President of the Harvard University JD-MBA Alumni
Association, a member of the Harvard University Committee on University Resources, and a member of the
Harvard NeuroDiscovery Advisory Council. Mr. Golub and his family actively support medical research to advance
treatments for Parkinson’s Disease at several leading institutions.
Mr. Golub was a White House Fellow and served for fifteen years as Treasurer of the White House Fellows
Foundation. He was Chairman of Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a non-profit developer and manager of lowincome housing in the Bronx. He served for fifteen years as a trustee of Montefiore Medical Center, the university
hospital of the Albert Einstein Medical School. He also served for six years as a trustee of Horace Mann School and
for five years on the Harvard University Committee for Science and Engineering.
Andrew Klaber ’10
Andrew Klaber is an investor at Paulson & Company, where he makes investment recommendations across
industries and the capital structure. Since 2002 he has served as the president and founder of Even Ground
(www.evenground.org), an international non-profit that annually provides more than 700 children who have been
orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS with academic scholarships, basic health care, and nutrition in South
Africa and Uganda. Originally from Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Andrew graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta
Kappa president from Yale College, where he rowed on the Yale lightweight crew (2002 national champions). He
earned Master of Science degrees in Financial Economics and Economic History from Oxford as a Marshall
Scholar. Klaber is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Term Member Program, David Rockefeller
Fellows Program, Economic Club of New York, and New York State Bar. Andrew serves on the Dean's Visiting
Committee at Harvard Law School and recently co-chaired his 5-year HLS reunion.
Martha Minow
Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Martha Minow is the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School where she
has taught since 1981. An expert in human rights with a focus on members of racial and religious minorities and
women, children, and persons with disabilities, her scholarship also has addressed private military contractors,
management of mass torts, transitional justice, and law, culture, and social change.
She has published over 150 articles and her books include In Brown’s Wake: Legacies of America’s
Educational Landmark (2010); Partners, Not Rivals, Privatization and the Public Good (2002); and Between
Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence (1998); she is co-editor of law
school casebooks on civil procedure, and on gender and the law. She has delivered more than 70 named or
endowed lectures and keynote addresses.
Following nomination by President Obama and confirmation by the Senate, she serves as vice-chair of the
board of the Legal Services Corporation and co-chair of its Pro Bono Task Force. She previously chaired the board
of directors for the Revson Foundation (New York) and now serves on the boards of the MacArthur Foundation,
the Covenant Foundation, and other nonprofit organizations. She is a former member of the board of the Bazelon
Center for Mental Health Law, the Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center, and former chair of the Scholar’s
Board of Facing History and Ourselves. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences since 1992, Minow
has also been a senior fellow of Harvard’s Society of Fellows, a member of Harvard University Press Board of
Syndics, a senior fellow and twice acting director of what is now Harvard’s Safra Foundation Center on Ethics, a
fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society.
She served on the Independent International Commission Kosovo and helped to launch Imagine Coexistence, a program of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, to promote peaceful development in postconflict societies. Her five-year partnership with the federal Department of Education and the Center for Applied
Special Technology worked to increase access to the curriculum for students with disabilities and resulted in both
legislative initiatives and a voluntary national standard opening access to curricular materials for individuals with
disabilities. She has worked on the Divided Cities initiative which is building an alliance of global cities dealing with
ethnic, religious, or political divisions.
Minow co-chaired the Law School’s curricular reform committee from 2003 to 2006, an effort that led to
significant innovation in the first-year curriculum as well as new programs of study for second- and third-year J.D.
students.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan and the Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Minow received her law degree at Yale Law School before serving as a law clerk to Judge David Bazelon and Justice
Thurgood Marshall. A member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, her
awards include the Sacks-Freund Teaching Award; the Holocaust Center Award; the Radcliffe Graduate Society
Medal; Trinity College History Society Gold Medal; and seven honorary doctorates.
Nitin Nohria
George F. Baker Professor of Business Administration and Dean of the Faculty, Harvard Business School
Nitin Nohria became the tenth dean of Harvard Business School on 1 July 2010. He previously served as
co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the
Organizational Behavior unit.
As Dean, building on input from faculty, students, staff, and alumni, he has identified five priorities for
Harvard Business School: innovation in the School's educational programs, beginning with the MBA Program;
intellectual ambition that advances ideas with impact in practice; continued internationalization, through building a
global intellectual footprint; creating a culture of inclusion, where every member of the community can do their best
work in support of the School's mission; and fostering a culture of integration within HBS and across Harvard
University that acts as a catalyst for entrepreneurship. Recent examples of activities in support of these priorities
include:
• A new year-long course in the Required Curriculum of the MBA Program, Field Immersion Experiences for
Leadership Development (FIELD), that provides students with intensive, immersive, small-group opportunities to
develop leadership, global, and integrative intelligence.
• The U.S. Competitiveness Project, a multi-faculty research-led effort to understand and improve the
competitiveness of the United States—that is, the ability of firms operating in the U.S. to compete successfully in
the global economy while supporting high and rising living standards for Americans.
• The launch of the Harvard Innovation Lab, an initiative to foster team-based and entrepreneurial activities and
deepen interactions among Harvard students, faculty, entrepreneurs, and members of the Allston and Greater
Boston community.
Dean Nohria's intellectual interests center on human motivation, leadership, corporate transformation and
accountability, and sustainable economic and human performance. He is co-author or co-editor of 16 books. The
most recent, Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, is a compendium dedicated to advancing research on
leadership based on a colloquium he organized during HBS’s centennial celebrations. Dean Nohria is also the
author of over 50 journal articles, book chapters, cases, working papers, and notes. He sits on the board of
directors of Tata Sons, and he has served as an advisor and consultant to several large and small companies in
different parts of the world. He has been interviewed by ABC, CNN, and NPR, and cited in Business Week,
Economist, Financial Times, Fortune, New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Prior to joining the Harvard Business School faculty in July 1988, Dean Nohria received his Ph.D. in
Management from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B. Tech. in
Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (which honored him as a Distinguished
Alumnus in 2007). He was a visiting faculty member at the London Business School in 1996.
He and his wife live in the Boston area with their two daughters.
Julie Cohen Norris '94
Julie Norris is a Senior Client Partner in the Boston and New York Offices of Korn Ferry and a member of
the Board & CEO, Legal and Technology Practices.
Julie brings to Korn/Ferry a background in management consulting and search, and has worked with clients
to recruit board members and general counsels across a wide range of industries, and senior executives in the
technology sector.
Julie was previously a Partner with CT Partners and the Board Services Specialist with Spencer Stuart,
working with small-cap and Fortune 100 clients across industries. While at Spencer Stuart, she designed and
administered the annual survey of S&P 500 general counsels and boards.
Earlier in her career Julie was a Senior Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company, serving life
sciences, technology and financial services clients. She gained executive experience as Vice President of Product
Development with CareScout, a privately held healthcare services company that was ultimately acquired by
Genworth.
Julie began her career as a Mergers and Acquisitions Financial Analyst with Wasserstein Perella. Throughout
her career, Julie has worked closely with boards, CEOs, and senior executives to develop high performance teams,
build new businesses, and turn around underperforming operations.
Julie regularly serves as a panelist for corporate governance programs with Harvard Law School, Harvard
Business School, and other organizations. She also helped develop an annual Executive Education program on
Corporate Governance with Wharton.
Julie holds an A.B. in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard College, a J.D. cum laude, from Harvard
Law School, and an M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Business School.
Guhan Subramanian ’98
Guhan Subramanian is the Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business at the Harvard Law School and the
Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School. He is the first person in the history of
Harvard University to hold tenured appointments at both HLS and HBS. At HLS he teaches courses in
negotiations and corporate law. At HBS he teaches in several executive education programs, such as Strategic
Negotiations, Changing the Game, Making Corporate Boards More Effective, and the Advanced Management
Program. He is the faculty chair for the JD/MBA program at Harvard University and the Vice-Chair for Research
at the Harvard Program on Negotiation. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty he spent three years at McKinsey &
Company. He holds undergraduate, law, and business degrees from Harvard University.
Cass R. Sunstein ’78
Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and
director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. Professor Sunstein has
testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has been involved in constitution-making and
law reform activities in a number of nations, including Ukraine, Poland, China, South Africa, and Russia. From 2009
to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Professor Sunstein is author of many articles and a number of books, including Republic.com (2001), Risk and
Reason (2002), Why Societies Need Dissent (2003), The Second Bill of Rights (2004), Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary
Principle (2005), Worst-Case Scenarios (2001), Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard
H. Thaler, 2008), Simpler: The Future of Government (2013) and most recently Why Nudge (2014).
Marc B. Wolpow ’85
Marc B. Wolpow is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Audax Group. Together with Geoff Rehnert, Marc cofounded Audax Group in 1999. Previously, Marc was a Managing Director of Bain Capital, Inc. From 1990 through
1997, he was engaged primarily in Bain Capital’s private equity investment business. In 1997, Marc co-founded
Sankaty Advisors, Inc., an affiliate of Bain Capital that invests in bank debt, high yield bonds, mezzanine loans, and
special situations. Prior to joining Bain Capital, he worked at Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. and Donaldson Lufkin
& Jenrette, Inc. Marc received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a JD from Harvard Law School. He
received a BS (Economics) from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Marc is on the board of
trustees of Children's Hospital Boston and The Belmont Hill School, and on the undergraduate advisory board of
the Wharton School.