Blake Winchell

For the past 37 years, Blake has focused on private equity investments with Leucadia National Corporation, the Channel Investment Group, Generation Ventures, The Fremont Group and Partner Ventures.  While he was the Managing General Partner of Fremont Ventures, the private equity growth-capital fund of the Fremont Group, it was named by EETimes as one of the top 10 venture capital firms in the US for adding value to portfolio companies.

Blake joined Bain & Company in 1978, and was one of the founders of the San Francisco Bain office.  In 1985, he joined the Brae Corporation division of Leucadia National Corporation (NYSE – LUK) as Vice President of Strategic Planning, and subsequently founded and managed the acquisition group for Leucadia.

Blake graduated from Dartmouth College in 1975 with high honors in English and Economics as a Rufus Choate Scholar where he was awarded the Henley Economics Prize.  He received his MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1979 and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Blake lives in Park City, Utah.  He is a member of the Young President’s Organization and is an adjunct professor at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain, one of Europe’s leading business schools, where he teaches highly rated courses on Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Acquisition (Search Funds).  Blake received the Award for Teaching Excellence from IE in each of the last 11 years.  He is also on the IE Business School International Advisory Board (Emeritus).  Blake is on the boards of MotionVFX and AlterG (observer) and is an advisor to Adara Venture Partners, and Akkadian Ventures.  He is also highly engaged in the search fund community, both domestically and internationally.  Exited investments include Atrenta, Baroo, Circle Surrogacy, Identified, Lithium Technologies, Sonics, Splunk and Tintri.