Paul Gompers
Founder bij Spur Capital Partners LLC
Profiel
Paul Gompers is an Advisor to Xfund.
He is the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, specializing in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies.
Professor Gompers has an appointment in both the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management areas.
He received his A.B.
summa cum laude in biology from Harvard College in 1987.
After spending a year working as a research biochemist for Bayer Chemical AG, he attended Oxford University on a Marshall Fellowship where he received an M.Sc.
in economics.
He completed his Ph.D.
in Business Economics at Harvard University in 1993.
Professor Gompers spent two years as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago where he created a new course entitled ‘Entrepreneurial Finance and Management.’ His course development efforts at the Harvard Business School focuses on issues affecting entrepreneurial firms and their investors.
He also teaches in HBS Executive Education.
His research focuses on the structure, governance, and performance of private equity funds; sources of financing, incentive design, and performance of private firms; and long-run performance evaluation for newly public companies.
His work on private equity funds has examined the relationship between general partners and their portfolio companies.
Gompers has investigated factors affecting the structure, timing, and monitoring activities by the general partner and how these factors affect the success or failure of entrepreneurial firms.
Similarly, he has examined the relationship between institutional investors and private equity fund managers.
This work has examined a large collection of partnership agreements and examined issues of compensation, covenants and restrictions, as well as distribution policy and performance..
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Spur Capital Partners LLC
Spur Capital Partners LLC Investment ManagersFinance Spur Capital Partners LLC (Spur Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Paul Fetsch, Paul Gompers, Joan Conniff Heidorn, and Brad Kelly. The firm is headquartered in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. | Founder | 01-06-2001 |
Harvard University
Harvard University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Xfund Management Co. LLC
Xfund Management Co. LLC Investment ManagersFinance Xfund Management Co. LLC (Xfund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Hugo van Vurren. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | Consultant / Advisor | - |
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Arsenal Venture Partners, Inc.
Arsenal Venture Partners, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Arsenal Venture Partners Inc (Arsenal Venture Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1997 by John Trbovich, Rottenberg Jason and Fountas Christopher. The firm is headquartered in Winter Park, Florida. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 01-04-2009 |
Knightsbridge Advisers LLC
Knightsbridge Advisers LLC Investment ManagersFinance Knightsbridge Advisers LLC (Knightsbridge Advisers) is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Joel Romines. The firm is headquartered in Belmont, Massachusetts. | Private Equity Investor | - |
Bayer Chemicals GmbH
Bayer Chemicals GmbH Industrial SpecialtiesProcess Industries Part of Bayer AG, Bayer Chemicals GmbH is a German company that manufactures coating materials and chemicals. The private company is based in Leverkusen, Germany. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
The University of Chicago | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Opleiding van Paul Gompers
Harvard University | Doctorate Degree |
University of Oxford | Graduate Degree |
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Knightsbridge Advisers LLC
Knightsbridge Advisers LLC Investment ManagersFinance Knightsbridge Advisers LLC (Knightsbridge Advisers) is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Joel Romines. The firm is headquartered in Belmont, Massachusetts. | Finance |
Spur Capital Partners LLC
Spur Capital Partners LLC Investment ManagersFinance Spur Capital Partners LLC (Spur Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Paul Fetsch, Paul Gompers, Joan Conniff Heidorn, and Brad Kelly. The firm is headquartered in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. | Finance |
Bayer Chemicals GmbH
Bayer Chemicals GmbH Industrial SpecialtiesProcess Industries Part of Bayer AG, Bayer Chemicals GmbH is a German company that manufactures coating materials and chemicals. The private company is based in Leverkusen, Germany. | Process Industries |
Arsenal Venture Partners, Inc.
Arsenal Venture Partners, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Arsenal Venture Partners Inc (Arsenal Venture Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1997 by John Trbovich, Rottenberg Jason and Fountas Christopher. The firm is headquartered in Winter Park, Florida. | Finance |
Xfund Management Co. LLC
Xfund Management Co. LLC Investment ManagersFinance Xfund Management Co. LLC (Xfund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Hugo van Vurren. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | Finance |