Glenn Hutchins

Hutchins was born in Virginia in 1955.

After studying at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and graduating in 1973, Hutchins earned a BA from Harvard College in 1977. In 1983, he finished a joint JD/MBA program from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, which he completed simultaneously.

Hutchins began his career as a credit analyst at Chemical Bank after earning his BA from Harvard in 1977.

Following his graduation from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School in 1983, he began his career in private equity at Thomas H. Lee Partners.

Hutchins left the firm in 1992 to join the Bill Clinton presidential transition team as a senior adviser focusing on economic policy. After serving as a special advisor on economic and healthcare policy in the Clinton Administration, Hutchins returned to private equity, this time joining The Blackstone Group in New York in 1994, where he was a senior managing director.

Hutchins co-founded Silver Lake Partners in 1999 alongside Roger McNamee and David Roux. He left the firm in 2012.

Hutchins was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and chairman of its of Audit and Risk Committee, from 2011 through 2020.

Hutchins is chairman of North Island, an investment firm focused on private equity investments, which he co-founded in 2020 with James Hutchins and Travis Scher.