Bob Grady, Gryphon Investors Private Equity Fast Pitch

Bob Grady, is a seasoned private equity executive with over two decades of experience. Prior to joining Gryphon, he spent five years as General Partner and Managing Director of the Cheyenne Capital Fund, a $500 million private equity fund that achieved top-decile performance among similar vintage private equity fund-of-funds. 
 
 Over the same time period, Mr. Grady was Chairman, as a non-paid volunteer, of the New Jersey State Investment Council, which oversees the state’s $78 billion pension plan. During his tenure as Chairman, the fund significantly outperformed its expected rate of return and its policy benchmarks, achieving over $35 billion in investment gains and income over four fiscal years.
 
From 2000-2009, Mr. Grady was a Partner, Managing Director, and Global Head of Venture & Growth Capital at The Carlyle Group. In addition to sitting on Carlyle’s Management Committee, he was the fund head for Carlyle Venture Partners, a growth capital partnership with $1.5 billion under management in three funds, while also sitting on numerous Carlyle investment committees and portfolio company boards of directors. While at Carlyle, he was a Director of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), where he also served as Chairman. Before his tenure at Carlyle, Mr. Grady spent seven years at Robertson Stephens & Co., including as a Partner and Managing Director who served on the firm’s Management Committee.
 
Earlier in his career, from 1989-1993, Mr. Grady served in the White House as a senior policy advisor to President George H.W. Bush. He held a number of key roles, among them Deputy Assistant to the President, Executive Associate Director of the Office of Management & Budget (OMB), and OMB Associate Director for Natural Resources, Energy and Science.
 
Mr. Grady also served on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 1993-2004 as a Lecturer in Public Management, teaching courses on environmental policy, regulatory policy, and investing in highly regulated industries.
Mr. Grady holds an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has been a Director of numerous private and public companies and non-profit organizations. He is currently a Director of Maxim Integrated Products (Nasdaq: “MXIM” and Stifel Financial Corporation (NYSE: “SF”), as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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