Charles D. Ellis

Charles D. Ellis is a consultant to large institutional investors and government agencies. For thirty years, he was a managing partner of Greenwich Associates, an international business strategy consulting firm he founded that serves virtually all the leading financial service organizations around the world. Ellis earned his M.B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from New York University. He has taught investment management courses at Harvard and Yale, and he is the author of twelve books, including Capital: The Story of Long-Term Investment Excellence and Wall Street People: True Stories of Today's Masters and Moguls. Ellis has served on the boards of Harvard Business School and Phillips Exeter Academy and is currently chairman of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, a trustee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a director of Vanguard, and a trustee and chair of the investment committee at Yale University.