Bio
John Hurley is the Managing Partner of Cavalry Asset Management and Managing Member of TGK Ventures. Based in San Francisco, Cavalry invests primarily in publicly traded technology companies and TGK invests primarily in privately held companies and real estate.
Mr. Hurley serves on the Board of Governors of the Middle East Institute, the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution, the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute, the Board of Directors of America’s Frontier Fund and on the East West Council of Advisors on Track Two Diplomacy. He is a Lecturer in Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and chairs the Princeton University History Department Advisory Board.
Mr. Hurley graduated with honors from Princeton in 1986, where he was Chairman of the Daily Princetonian. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and served for five years in the US Army. During the First Gulf War, as a battalion fire direction officer for the First Cavalry Division, he was awarded the Bronze Star.
After receiving his MBA from the GSB in 1993, he was an analyst and portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments and Managing Partner of Bowman Capital Management before founding Cavalry in 2003.
He and his late wife Kamilla GSB ’92 have three sons.
Academic Degrees
- MBA, Stanford GSB, 1993
- BA (cum laude), Princeton University, 1986
Academic Appointments
- At Stanford University since 2005
Professional Experience
- Founder and Managing Partner, Cavalry Asset Management, 2003-present
- Managing Partner, Bowman Capital Management, 1997–2001
- Research Analyst–Portfolio Manager, Fidelity Investments, 1992–1997
- Lieutenant–Captain, U.S. Army, 1986–1991