John G. Quigley

Mr. John G. Quigley has been a principal investor in the private equity and venture capital business for over twenty years. He is one of the two founders of Nassau Capital, the independent firm established in the mid-1990s to manage the private assets of the Princeton University endowment. (The endowment was roughly $4 billion in 1995, and is today over $16 billion.) Mr. Quigley launched Nassau’s direct investment program, investing in a broad range of venture capital, buyout and recapitalization transactions. Under his direction, the Nassau Capital direct investment team invested roughly $400 million in over 50 businesses, achieving an all-in-IRR in excess of 30%.

Mr. Quigley’s seminal experiences in the private equity business came as a partner of leveraged buyout sponsor Adler & Shaykin in New York during the 1980s, and as a founder of Clipper Capital Partners (an independent merchant banking fund sponsored by Credit Suisse First Boston) during the early 1990s. He began his career as an attorney with Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago.

Over the years, Mr. Quigley has served as a director of companies in a wide range of businesses. He is currently on the board of Hypercube LLC, and a member of a number of private equity firms’ advisory boards.

Mr. Quigley is a graduate of Georgetown (A.B., summa cum laude, 1976), Stanford (J.D. and M.B.A., 1980) and Columbia (M.Phil., 1992). Since the early ‘90s Mr. Quigley has taught courses on Venture Capital & Private Equity Investing, most recently at Princeton, and previously at Columbia Law School, NYU’s Stern School of Business, and Stanford Law School (where he serves on the Dean’s Strategic Council).