George Arnold

Managing Principal at Knightsbridge Advisers

Speaker

George is actively involved in all aspects of portfolio management, including all investment due diligence and decision-making processes.

George joined Knightsbridge from Citigroup Private Equity where he was Director and Head of Venture/Growth Equity Fund Investments. At Citigroup, George was responsible for more than 100 fund relationships with commitments of $1.3 billion. Additionally, he was a member of several advisory boards and brought Citigroup into 29 new venture and growth equity funds, many of which were access-restricted. Prior to this role, George invested directly in private technology companies on behalf of Citigroup alongside venture investors, serving as a director or observer on many of their boards.

Earlier in his career, George spent five years as an engineer and project manager with a Silicon Valley technology company George also holds a patent related to metallic access subscriber line testing.

George is a Swiss national, former Swiss Army officer, and a graduate of the Swiss Institute of Technology (Dipl.El.-Ing.ETH). He came to the United States to earn an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, followed by an MBA from Santa Clara University.