Josh Bekenstein '80 was a four year member of the Yale men's lacrosse team. Beckenstein is a Managing Director of Bain Capital, a leading global private investment firm based in Boston. He helped start Bain Capital in 1984 with a number of colleagues from Bain & Company, the management consulting firm.Â
Since then, Bain Capital has grown to more than 900 people and has made private equity investments and add-ons in more than 350 companies across a variety of industries. In addition, the firm has expanded into several other asset classes and currently manages several pools of capital including private equity, venture capital, and non investment grade debt, a long/short equity hedge fund and has approximately $80 billion in assets under management.Â
Bekenstein has stayed active with Yale, serving on the Board of Advisors of the Yale School of Management, the Yale Investment Committee, an at-large member of the University Council, the co-chair of the Yale Tomorrow Campaign, and a member of the Yale Development Council. In July of 2013, he began serving as a trustee on the Yale Corporation.Â
He also serves as a board member of Bob's Discount Furnture, Bombardier Reccreational Products, Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Burlington Stores, Canada Goose, Dollarama, Gymboree, Michaels Stores, Toys R Us, TOMS, and Waters Corporation. In his not-for-profit work, he chairs the Board of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and New Profit Inc., and he serves on the Board of City Year. Josh holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. He lives in Wayland, Massachusetts and he and his wife, Anita, have five children, between the ages of 19 and 27.
