John G. Quigley
Mr. John G. Quigley has been a principal investor in the private equity and venture capital business for over twenty years. He is a founder, and one of the two managing partners of Nassau Capital, the independent firm which had been established in 1995 to manage the private investment program of the Princeton University endowment. Mr. Quigley headed Nassau’s direct investment program from the time the firm was launched, investing in a broad range of venture capital, buyout and recapitalization transactions.
The extraordinary growth of the Princeton endowment during the decade after Nassau Capital’s formation was fueled by the firm’s investment performance and the private asset portfolio it built. (The endowment was roughly $4 billion in 1995, and is today over $14 billion.) Under Mr. Quigley’s direction, the Nassau Capital direct investment program has made investments of roughly $400 million in over 50 businesses since 1995, with an aggregate all-in-IRR (gross) estimated to be in excess of 30%.
Mr. Quigley’s seminal experiences in the private equity business came as a partner of leveraged buyout sponsor Adler & Shaykin in New York during the 1980s, and as a founder of Clipper Capital Partners (an independent merchant banking fund sponsored by Credit Suisse First Boston) during the early 1990s. He began his career as an attorney with Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago.
Over the years, Mr. Quigley has served as a director of companies in a wide range of businesses, as well as on the advisory boards of a number of private equity investment firms. His current board memberships include Hypercube LLC and The Audax Group.
Mr. Quigley is a graduate of Georgetown (A.B., summa cum laude, 1976), Stanford (J.D. and M.B.A., 1980) and Columbia (M.Phil., 1992). Since the early ‘90s Mr. Quigley has taught courses on Venture Capital & Private Equity Investing, most recently at Princeton, and previously at Columbia Law School, NYU’s Stern School of Business, and Stanford Law School (where he serves on the Dean’s Strategic Council).
