Bill McGlashan

as the largest ever raised. He has also been a board member for over 30 companies and charities, holding the chairman position for two as well.

A passionate advocate for impact investing, throughout his career McGlashan has pushed the investment world to embrace the modality. Identifying capitalism as the key to broadening economic prosperity, he has sought to leverage capital and investment discipline to invest profitably while simultaneously creating social and environmental change, using the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework.

McGlashan has been recognized at an international level for his work. He was listed two times on Vanity Fair’s coveted “New Establishment List”, and was named Private Equity International’s “Game Changer of the Year.”

In 2004, McGlashan joined the global private equity firm TPG where he served as managing director and managing partner.. He went on to found TPG Growth, the growth equity investment arm of the firm focusing on the mid-market, in 2007. His first fund had an annualized rate of return of 20 percent and the second fund’s return was 45 percent.

Under McGlashan’s direction as managing partner, TP Growth was able to identify and invest in some of the most prominent high-growth companies of the 21st century including Uber, Airbnb and Spotify. In total, TPG Growth raised and deployed $13 billion in assets across a range of sectors including media, technology and industrials, and in the last five years created over 500,000 jobs per year.

In December of 2016, McGlashan co-founded The Rise Fund alongside Bono and Jeff Skoll. As CEO of the largest impact fund ever raised, McGlashan oversaw the fund’s mandate of achieving measurable social and environmental impact alongside competitive financial returns. It has cumulatively invested $2.1 billion across more than 25 investments, 12 of which are headquartered in emerging markets.

McGlashan has overseen the fund creating social and environmental benefits worth $26 billion – 13 times the size of the $2 billion fund. These include averting over 2.7 million metric tons of CO2, conserving six million acres of land, saving $10 million in energy costs for low-income households, providing two million low-income individuals with access to financial wellness programs, and investing over $350 million in R&D for disruptive healthcare innovation.

Financially, the fund attracted high-profile LPs, including Washington State Investment Board, Regents of the University of California, and UBS Group. 70 percent of capital raised came from entities brand new to impact investing, and McGlashan has said that they were very clear that in order to be a Rise Fund partner world-class returns as well as impact must be fulfilled, with all investments delivering at least 2.5 times Impact Multiple of Money (IMM).

In 2019, McGlashan launched Y Analytics, a public benefit corporation that helps capital allocators better understand, value and manage social and environmental impact. In this way, they can increase the effectiveness and reach of their capital. Y Analytics uses the IMM to analyze companies and makes the methodology public in order to broaden the reach of impact investing. He has said his goal is to get to a place where the IMM metric is measured with the same frequency and consistency as others such as GDP or IRR.

In addition to his work in private equity and capital allocation, McGlashan has also founded several other companies including STX Entertainment, an American film and television studio launched in 2014 with producer Robert Simonds, and Evolution Media Capital, a merchant bank that offers M&A advisory, industry research, and capital-raising services.

McGlashan earned his bachelor’s degree from Yale University, and has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.