Primary Job Title Founder, Principal & Chief Investment Officer Primary Organization Engaged Capital
Location Newport Beach, California, United States Regions Greater Los Angeles Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Investor Type
Facebook View on Facebook LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Glenn Welling is the Founder, Principal and Chief Investment Officer of Engaged Capital. Glenn is responsible for overseeing all facets of the firm.
Prior to Engaged Capital, Glenn was a Principal and Managing Director at Relational Investors, a $6 billion activist equity fund. At Relational, Glenn was responsible for managing the equity fund’s
consumer, healthcare and utility group. Glenn was involved in all aspects of Relational’s research process from the identification of investment ideas to the development and implementation of the engagement process with portfolio companies.
Prior to Relational Investors, Glenn spent seven years as a Managing Director at Credit Suisse as the Head of the Investment Banking Department’s Advisory Business. At Credit Suisse, Glenn built his group from two to fifty people and into one of the leading commercially focused advisory businesses on Wall Street advising on over $100 billion of transactions in his last year there. Glenn joined Credit Suisse when the Firm acquired HOLT Value Associates L.P. (“HOLT”) where he was a Partner and Managing Director.
At HOLT, Glenn ran the Corporate and Alliance Services business, advising senior executives and Boards on how their decisions would be viewed and valued by institutional investors.
Prior to HOLT, Glenn was the Managing Director of Valuad U.S., a financial software and training company.
Prior to leading Valuad U.S., Glenn worked at a number of leading strategy consulting firms including A.T. Kearney and Marakon Associates. Glenn has worked and managed businesses in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Glenn is a Member of the Board of Directors at Jamba, Inc., a NASDAQ listed leading restaurant retailer of better-for-you food and beverage offerings , ROVI Corporation, a NASDAQ listed provider of digital entertainment technology solutions, and Medifast, Inc., a NYSE listed manufacturer of medically based, proprietary healthy living and meal replacement products.
Glenn also teaches Executive Education Courses at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, his alma mater, where he was a two year captain and four year letterman on the tennis team. Glenn currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the university’s tennis program and as a Member of the Wharton Executive Education Board.
Glenn earned his B.S. degree in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992.
