Daniel de Faro Adamson is the co-founder and co-CEO of Collective Global, a venture capital firm dedicated to reimagining how premier institutions access the innovation economy. He was also the Chairman, and formerly the founding President, of Capital Constellation, a joint venture between asset owners in Europe, North America and the Middle East that has deployed more than $3 billion to catalyze the next generation of private equity managers. Daniel was a Senior Advisor to Wafra, and previously served as a Senior Managing Director and member of the firm’s Management Committee. He held senior positions at Ares Management and Bridgewater Associates and began his career at McKinsey & Company.
Daniel currently serves on the External Advisory Board for Strategic Investment Funds at the World Bank, the President’s Council for International Activities at Yale University, and on the Advisory Board of the Stanford Research Initiative on Long-Term Investing. He is a co-author of The Blue Way: How to Profit by Investing in a Better World (Simon & Schuster, 2008) and the co-host of the podcast, Don’t Get Fired, which, in affiliation with Stanford University, profiles CIOs of innovative institutional asset owners.
Daniel earned a BA, summa cum laude, from Yale University, an MPhil in Politics from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a JD from the Yale Law School. Daniel and his wife Athena are advocates for international adoption and active in support of orphaned children in Kyrgyzstan, where they adopted the youngest of their three children.
Daniel de Faro Adamson is the co-founder and co-CEO of Collective Global, a venture capital firm dedicated to reimagining how premier institutions access the innovation economy. He was also the Chairman, and formerly the founding President, of Capital Constellation, a joint venture between asset owners in Europe, North America and the Middle East that has deployed more than $3 billion to catalyze the next generation of private equity managers. Daniel was a Senior Advisor to Wafra, and previously served as a Senior Managing Director and member of the firm’s Management Committee. He held senior positions at Ares Management and Bridgewater Associates and began his career at McKinsey & Company.
Daniel currently serves on the External Advisory Board for Strategic Investment Funds at the World Bank, the President’s Council for International Activities at Yale University, and on the Advisory Board of the Stanford Research Initiative on Long-Term Investing. He is a co-author of The Blue Way: How to Profit by Investing in a Better World (Simon & Schuster, 2008) and the co-host of the podcast, Don’t Get Fired, which, in affiliation with Stanford University, profiles CIOs of innovative institutional asset owners.
Daniel earned a BA, summa cum laude, from Yale University, an MPhil in Politics from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a JD from the Yale Law School. Daniel and his wife Athena are advocates for international adoption and active in support of orphaned children in Kyrgyzstan, where they adopted the youngest of their three children.
