Rene Kern

Rene M. Kern is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic, where he served as partner and managing director until 2018. During his career, he led the firm’s European and Latin American business, financial services practice, and capital partnering team. He also served on the firm’s executive, investment, and portfolio committees. Mr. Kern joined General Atlantic in 1996 after six years with Morgan Stanley in New York and London and two years with Bain & Company in Boston.

He is a fellow and vice chair of the University of Pennsylvania’s Joseph H. Lauder Institute, member of the University of California, Berkeley, Foundation’s Board of Trustees, member of the Council on Foreign Relations and co-president of the Rene Kern Family Foundation, a philanthropy which is supporting not-for-profit organizations in education, the arts and health care in the United States.