Full Name
Steve Mandel
Job Title
Founder, Managing Member And Member Of The Management Committee
Company
Lone Pine Capital
Speaker Bio
Stephen F. Mandel, Jr.
Founder, Managing Member
Lone Pine Capital LLC
Steve Mandel is an American investor and philanthropist.
Mr. Mandel is the founder of Lone Pine Capital, a global equity management firm that manages approximately billion in assets. Founded in 1997, the firm currently employs more than 100 people across its offices in Greenwich, CT and New York City.
Mr. Mandel established the Lone Pine Foundation in 2001 to cultivate a spirit of philanthropy at the firm. The Foundation is funded entirely by Lone Pine’s employees, all of whom serve as equal voting members on its Advisory Board. The Foundation has awarded over 0 million in grants to nonprofits that fight poverty through education, in geographies where Lone Pine operates.
Beyond Lone Pine, Mr. Mandel and his wife, Sue, founded the ZOOM Foundation in 2001. ZOOM makes philanthropic investments in innovative change efforts with high potential for sustainable impact, particularly in the areas of education and the environment. More recently, ZOOM has extended its reach, funding efforts to protect democracy, reform criminal justice, and enhance economic opportunity for Connecticut’s most underserved citizens.
Mr. Mandel has focused his philanthropic efforts on providing an excellent education for all children. He is a board member of Leadership for Educational Equity, a nonprofit leadership development organization inspiring and supporting a network of civic leaders to end the injustice of educational inequity by running for public office and working in public policy and community organizing. He is also a board member and prior board chair of Teach For America, which works in partnership with urban and rural communities in more than 50 regions across the country to expand educational opportunity for children.
Mr. Mandel is a former board chair and investment committee chair of Dartmouth College. He is also a former trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy, where he led the investment committee for over a decade, and is an emeritus trustee of The Children’s School, in Stamford, CT.
Prior to founding Lone Pine, Mr. Mandel was a managing director and head of equities at Tiger Management Corporation. Earlier in his career, he was a vice president and mass market retailing analyst at Goldman Sachs, where he also served on the board of the Stone Street Fund.
Mr. Mandel was raised in Darien, CT, where he attended local public elementary and middle schools before attending Phillips Exeter Academy, graduating with high honors. Mr. Mandel graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College, where he was awarded the Jeffrey Pressman Prize for the outstanding thesis in the field of American government and was a member of the men’s squash team. He went on to receive his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and would later serve on the school’s Board of Dean’s Advisors. He received a master’s degree in American History from Gettysburg College in 2023 and recently joined the board of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
The Mandels live in Greenwich, CT, have three adult children and six perfect grandchildren.
Founder, Managing Member
Lone Pine Capital LLC
Steve Mandel is an American investor and philanthropist.
Mr. Mandel is the founder of Lone Pine Capital, a global equity management firm that manages approximately billion in assets. Founded in 1997, the firm currently employs more than 100 people across its offices in Greenwich, CT and New York City.
Mr. Mandel established the Lone Pine Foundation in 2001 to cultivate a spirit of philanthropy at the firm. The Foundation is funded entirely by Lone Pine’s employees, all of whom serve as equal voting members on its Advisory Board. The Foundation has awarded over 0 million in grants to nonprofits that fight poverty through education, in geographies where Lone Pine operates.
Beyond Lone Pine, Mr. Mandel and his wife, Sue, founded the ZOOM Foundation in 2001. ZOOM makes philanthropic investments in innovative change efforts with high potential for sustainable impact, particularly in the areas of education and the environment. More recently, ZOOM has extended its reach, funding efforts to protect democracy, reform criminal justice, and enhance economic opportunity for Connecticut’s most underserved citizens.
Mr. Mandel has focused his philanthropic efforts on providing an excellent education for all children. He is a board member of Leadership for Educational Equity, a nonprofit leadership development organization inspiring and supporting a network of civic leaders to end the injustice of educational inequity by running for public office and working in public policy and community organizing. He is also a board member and prior board chair of Teach For America, which works in partnership with urban and rural communities in more than 50 regions across the country to expand educational opportunity for children.
Mr. Mandel is a former board chair and investment committee chair of Dartmouth College. He is also a former trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy, where he led the investment committee for over a decade, and is an emeritus trustee of The Children’s School, in Stamford, CT.
Prior to founding Lone Pine, Mr. Mandel was a managing director and head of equities at Tiger Management Corporation. Earlier in his career, he was a vice president and mass market retailing analyst at Goldman Sachs, where he also served on the board of the Stone Street Fund.
Mr. Mandel was raised in Darien, CT, where he attended local public elementary and middle schools before attending Phillips Exeter Academy, graduating with high honors. Mr. Mandel graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College, where he was awarded the Jeffrey Pressman Prize for the outstanding thesis in the field of American government and was a member of the men’s squash team. He went on to receive his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and would later serve on the school’s Board of Dean’s Advisors. He received a master’s degree in American History from Gettysburg College in 2023 and recently joined the board of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
The Mandels live in Greenwich, CT, have three adult children and six perfect grandchildren.
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