Jared Carney

Senior advisor

Jared Carney has spent his career building companies and forging partnerships with business leaders, philanthropists and government officials across the globe.

He is also the founder of Lightdale LLC, a global holding and strategic advisory firm focused not only on generating returns, but also in effecting socially impactful and philanthropic change. Prior to Lightdale, Carney served as Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at the Milken Institute, working closely with Michael Milken to grow the annual Global Conference into the world’s largest capital markets gathering, as well as growing the Institute into one of the world’s preeminent financial think tanks. He also served as a senior advisor and worked closely with Milken on Knowledge Universe as it became the world’s largest privately owned for-profit education company.

Before joining the Institute, Carney was a pioneer in the Internet/high-tech and media industries where he successfully founded, launched or helped build a number of disruptive companies and technologies including launching Java for Sun Microsystems, establishing Fox Networks web presence (X-Files and all owned & operated TV stations), co-starting Intranets.com, an Idealab company (sold to WebEx), and Captura (sold to Concur).

Carney currently serves on the board of directors of Brandenburg Realty, Morpher, while acting as Senior Advisor to a number of firms including CITIC, APQ, RMR Industrials, SparkLabs and Houlihan Lokey. He is also Vice-Chairman of McKinley Capital, a $7bn AUM quantitative asset manager.

On the non-profit side, Jared serves on the Board of Advisors of The Arctic Circle; as founder of the California Fund, co-founder of the Arctic Maritime Exchange, and as senior advisor to a group of governments as well as the Milken Institute and Prostate Cancer Foundation.

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CONTACT

jcarney@lightdalellc.com
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