Paul E. Tierney, Jr. (born in 1943) is a business professor at Columbia University, a fund manager, and a venture capitalist at Aperture Venture Partners, and Fidus Partners. His investments have included stakes in the parent of United Airlines, US healthcare companies, and businesses in underdeveloped markets including Subsaharan Africa.Daniel Fishe
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Champions of Free Enterprise Forbes Magazine He was named Chair of the Board of Advisors for Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) by Lisa Anderson, dean.

Life

He graduated from ''

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'' from the University of Notre Dame in 1964. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Chile. He graduated from Harvard University, with an M.B.A. as a

Baker Scholar Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA ...

, in 1968. He was a senior vice president at White, Weld & Co. In 1978, he co-founded Gollust, Tierney & Oliver; they split up in 1990. He owned the

Major League Soccer Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, which represents the sport's highest level in the United States. The league comprises 29 teams—26 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada ...

team,

D.C. United D.C. United is a professional soccer club based in Washington, D.C. that competes in the Eastern Conference of Major League Soccer, the top tier of American soccer. Domestically, the club has won four MLS Cups (league championships), four Suppo ...

, from 1994 to 2001. He is married to Susan; they have three children.

Philanthropy

Tierney has been chairman of

TechnoServe TechnoServe is an international nonprofit that promotes business solutions to poverty in the developing world by linking people to information, capital and markets. It is a registered 501(c)(3) based in Washington, D.C., with over 1,540 employee ...

, an international economic development organization working in Africa and Latin America, for two decades.interview
April 2010 LEADERS magazine Tierney encourages the use of private equity and venture capital to fund entrepreneurial firms in Africa, believing this funding approach "can be a superior alternative to the traditional development funds funneled through the likes of the World Bank."

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tierney, Paul E. Columbia University faculty Columbia Business School faculty 1943 births American venture capitalists Harvard Business School alumni University of Notre Dame alumni Living people