Graves Tompkins

Managing Director,
Chief Operating Officer

REGION United States

OFFICE LOCATION New York

Graves Tompkins is the Chief Operating Officer of General Atlantic. He serves on the firm’s Executive, Management, and Capital Committees, as well as the Investment Committee for GA Credit. Before assuming the COO role, Graves spent more than a decade leading General Atlantic’s Capital Partnering efforts. Prior to that, he was a member of the firm’s Healthcare and Financial Services sector teams.

Before joining General Atlantic in 2008, Graves worked in the Merchant Banking division at Goldman Sachs, where he focused on principal investments across a broad range of sectors, and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Graves is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, a member of the Leadership Council at Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership, and he was previously a David Rockefeller Fellow through the New York City Partnership.

Historical Board Affiliations

Harvard Business School Club of New York, Board Member
WNET (New York Public Television), Board Member

Education

Princeton University, A.B., Politics
Harvard Business School, M.B.A.
Harvard Kennedy School, M.P.A.

Community Involvement

Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, Board Member
Council on Foreign Relations, Member
New York Public Library, Investment Committee Member
Partnership Fund for New York City, Investment Committee Member
Summer Search New York City, Board Chair