Paul Gompers

Colleagues at Xfund

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Alex Pentland

Toshiba Professor of Media, Arts, and Sciences at MIT at Xfund

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Andrew Williamson

Managing Partner, Cambridge Innovation Capital at Xfund

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Bob Pozen

Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management at Xfund

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Brandon Farwell

General Partner at Xfund

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Cherry Murray

Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy and Professor of Physics, Harvard University at Xfund

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Deborah Spar

Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School at Xfund

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Elise Bates

Senior Director of the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and HBS Foundry, Harvard Business School at Xfund

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Habib Haddad

Managing Partner at The E14 Fund

Frequently asked questions

Who is Paul Gompers?

Paul Gompers is an Advisor to Xfund and the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, with appointments in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management areas. He earned an A.B. in biology from Harvard College, an M.Sc. in economics from Oxford University as a Marshall Fellow, and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard, and previously taught finance at the University of Chicago. His research addresses the structure, governance, and performance of private equity funds, financing and incentives for private firms, and the long-run performance of newly public companies.

Where does Paul Gompers work?

Paul Gompers is Advisor at Xfund.

Where did Paul Gompers go to school?

Paul Gompers studied at Harvard University (Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Business Economics); University of Oxford (Master of Science (M.Sc.), Economics); Harvard University (Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biology).