Steven A. Denning is the Chairman of General Atlantic. He joined the firm in 1980 and has built the organization into one of the leading global equity investment firms focused exclusively on investing in growth companies. He is a director of TASC, Inc. (Private), Gavilon Holdings, LLC (Private) and The Thomson Reuters Corporation (NYSE: TRI; TSX: TRI).

Mr. Denning joined General Atlantic after working with McKinsey & Company as a consultant. He received an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1978. Prior to business school, Mr. Denning served six years in the U.S. Navy, where he also obtained an MS degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He received a BS from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1970.

Mr. Denning is a member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University, and was elected to be Chairman of the Board of Trustees effective July 2012. He is Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of The Nature Conservancy and serves on the board of The Brookings Institution and the American Museum of Natural History.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the McKinsey Investment Office Advisory Council, and the Board of Trustees of the Bridgespan Group.  He is Emeritus Chairman of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Board and the National Parks Conservation Association. He was formerly a member of the Advisory Board of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut Science Center, the Georgia Tech Advisory Board and Georgia Tech Foundation Inc., and the Cancer Research Institute.