Lauren & Bobby Turner Social Impact Executive Speaker Series 11/16/15
Monday, November 16, 2015
The Lauren & Bobby Turner Turner Social Impact Speaker Series
a dialogue with
WILLIAM A. ACKMAN
FOUNDER & CEO,
PERSHING SQUARE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
ACTIVIST INVESTOR, PHILANTHROPIST AND SOCIAL IMPACT INVESTOR
DATE Monday, November 16, 2015
TIME 4:45 PM
VENUE Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center
Moderated by Bobby Turner W'84
On a mission to make meaningful change - both financial and societal.
William Ackman is the CEO and Portfolio Manager of Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P., an SEC registered investment adviser founded in 2003. Pershing Square is a concentrated research-intensive fundamental value investor in long and occasionally short investments in the public markets.
Prior to forming Pershing Square, Mr. Ackman co-founded Gotham Partners Management Co., LLC, an investment adviser that managed public and private equity hedge fund portfolios. Prior to Gotham Partners, Mr. Ackman began his career in real estate investment banking at Ackman Brothers & Singer, Inc. Mr. Ackman received an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Harvard College.
In 2006, William and Karen Ackman founded The Pershing Square Foundation which supports exceptional leaders and innovative organizations that tackle important social issues.
Mr. Ackman’s board memberships include Chairman of The Howard Hughes Corporation (NYSE: HHC), Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (NYSE: CP), and the Board of Dean's Advisors of the Harvard Business School.
The Lauren & Bobby Turner Turner Social Impact Speaker Series inspires the Penn community with high profile leaders who are "doing well, and doing good." The series is funded by alums K. Robert Turner W'84 and Lauren Golub Turner W'85.