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Mike Stone

Mr. Stone is Founder and Managing Member of FS Investors, a San Diego based family office.  Mike is a Senior Advisor to TPG, where he previously served as the Chief Investment Officer of The Rise Funds and The Rise Climate Funds.  He was also Co-Managing Partner of TPG Growth and a member of the Management Committee.

Mike is a retired Senior Partner and past President of J.H. Whitney & Co.  He is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard Business School. 

He serves on the Board of Advisors of Scripps Institution for Oceanography and of Scripps Research, the Madison Council for the Library of Congress, and the Board of Overseers for the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. 

He is Chairman of Wilderness Holdings, which owns and operates 65 lodges/safari camps across eight countries in Africa.  He also serves as Chairman of Anew Climate, Hybar Steel and Mendocino Farms.  He serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee of Beta Technologies (BETA) and also serves as a director of several private companies. 

Mr. Stone currently serves on the Undergraduate Education Committee.

July 2026