Advisory Council

Thomas F. Steyer

Senior Managing Member, Farallon Capital Management

Thomas F. Steyer is the Senior Managing Member of Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C. and oversees its investment activities with Andrew Spokes.  Farallon is a $20 billion investment fund with offices on three continents.  Its largest limited partners, other than the General Partner, are college endowments and foundations.
 
Since founding Farallon in 1986, Mr. Steyer has served as its managing partner.  Mr. Steyer is also a Managing Director and member of the Executive Committee of Hellman & Friedman, a San Francisco-based private equity investment firm whose most recent fund was over $8 billion.

Prior to founding Farallon and joining Hellman & Friedman in 1986, Mr. Steyer worked for Goldman Sachs & Co., where he had primary responsibility for a substantial number of the Goldman Sachs merger arbitrage department’s investments.  Between college and business school, Mr. Steyer worked as a financial analyst in Morgan Stanley & Co.’s mergers and acquisitions department.

Mr. Steyer and his wife, Kat Taylor, founded OneCalifornia Bank, a sustainable, effective, community-development bank.  To support the bank’s goals, they also created OneCalifornia Foundation to engage in charitable and educational activities. Mr. Steyer and Ms. Taylor also helped found OneRoof, a social business designed to bring technology to rural India.  Over the past four years, OneRoof has opened computer centers to connect poor residents of India with the information revolution.

Mr. Steyer graduated from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and from Yale University, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude in Economics and Political Science and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.  Mr. Steyer is a board member of Stanford University, where he has made a lead gift to further research into renewable energy sources and new energy technologies. Mr. Steyer served as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 2004 and 2008, and has been a member of The Hamilton Project since 2005.