Glenn Hutchins

Glenn Hogan Hutchins (born 1955)

Early life and education Hutchins was born in Virginia in 1955. Hutchins earned a BA from Harvard College in 1977. In 1983, he finished a joint JD/MBA program from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, which he completed simultaneously.

Following his graduation from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School in 1983,

Hutchins left the firm in 1992 to join the Bill Clinton presidential transition team as a senior adviser focusing on economic policy. Hutchins returned to private equity, this time joining The Blackstone Group in New York in 1994, where he was a senior managing director.

Hutchins co-founded Silver Lake Partners in 1999 alongside Roger McNamee and David Roux.

Hutchins was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and chairman of its of Audit and Risk Committee, from 2011 through 2020.

Other affiliations Hutchins is co-chairman of the board of trustees of the Brookings Institution. In 2013 he also created the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings Institution with a $10 million endowment grant.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Hutchins is on the boards of directors of AT&T and Banco Santander.

At GIC Private Limited, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore, he is on the Investment Board and the International Advisory Board.

Hutchins is a former chairman of Instinet, a former chairnman of SunGard Data Systems, a former director of Nasdaq, and a former director of the Center for American Progress. He has also previously served on the boards of TD Ameritrade, Seagate Technology, MCI, Inc., Gartner, and Sabre Holdings.

The W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute, established in 1975, was expanded and renamed the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research in 2013 after a $15 million gift from Hutchins via his Hutchins Family Foundation.

He is a partial owner of the Boston Celtics.