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Managing Director and Founding Partner
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George W. Siguler is a Managing Director and founding partner of Siguler Guff & Company. He is responsible for directing the firm’s private equity investment strategy and is the firm’s Chief Investment Officer. Prior to founding Siguler Guff, Mr. Siguler was a Managing Director and head of PaineWebber’s Private Equity Group from 1991 until Siguler Guff became independent in 1995.
Before joining PaineWebber, he was President of Associated Capital Investors (formerly Bank of America Investment Management Company). From 1985 to 1991, he served as Chief Investment Officer and oversaw the company’s common stock, bond and private equity portfolios.
Mr. Siguler was a founding partner of the Harvard Management Company in the early 1970s, and initiated and managed its venture capital, buyout and hedge fund activity. He also served as Associate Treasurer of Harvard University. Mr. Siguler served in the Reagan Administration from 1983 to 1984 as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, with oversight responsibility for a $300 billion budget and 150,000 employees.
In 1988, Mr. Siguler was instrumental in setting up Commonfund Capital, the private equity arm of The Common Fund, and for many years served as one of its directors. He has served as a director of numerous public and private companies.
Mr. Siguler is a member of the Board of Overseers Visiting Committee of the Harvard Medical School, and a Trustee of the Bement School, Deerfield, Massachusetts. He holds a A.B. from Amherst College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
