Mr. Patrick is Senior Partner at The Vistria Group, a private investment firm that seeks to deliver both superior financial returns and meaningful impact. He serves as the David R. Gergen Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership from 2022 to 2024.
Prior to joining The Vistria Group, Mr. Patrick was the founder and former Managing Partner of Bain Capital Double Impact. Before that, from January 2007 to January 2015, he served as Governor of Massachusetts. He has been a senior executive in two Fortune 50 companies, a partner in two Boston law firms, and by appointment of President Bill Clinton, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the United States Justice Department. He is a Rockefeller Fellow, a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and the author of two books. Mr. Patrick earned an AB cum laude from Harvard College and a JD from Harvard Law School.
Mr. Valdmanis is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of FoW Partners, a Portland, Maine-based investment firm dedicated to building the next generation of high-impact businesses using workforce innovation and artificial intelligence. Prior to FoW, Mr. Valdmanis was Managing Partner of the Two Sigma Impact team and, earlier, Managing Partner at Bain Capital, where he helped to expand the firm’s capabilities in Asia Pacific.
He later worked for Bain Capital Double Impact where he helped to launch the firm's first dedicated social impact fund.
Mr. Valdmanis is a founding member of the Aspen Institute Worker Voice in Corporate Governance Lab and serves on the board of Dartmouth School for Social Impact. In 2020, Mr. Valdmanis co-authored Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism. He earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an A.B. cum laude in Economics from Dartmouth College.
