Matt Ridenour
Lecturer at UCLA Anderson School of Management
Schools
- UCLA Anderson School of Management
Links
Biography
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Biography
Matt Ridenour is currently the Operating Partner at The People Fund (www.thepeoplefund.net). He has primary responsibility for supervising the People Fund’s portfolio of operating companies.
Prior to joining the People Fund, Mr. Ridenour was a founding Managing Director of two different venture capital funds, Momentum Venture Management and Gazelle TechVentures, both of which made Series A investments in early stage technology companies. Prior to this Mr. Ridenour was a Principal with Blue Capital, a leveraged buyout fund, and was a Consultant with Bain & Company in their private equity practice.
Mr. Ridenour has been a principal in fundraising transactions totaling more than $200mm and has extensive experience as both a venture investor and as an early stage CEO. Mr. Ridenour has an economics degree from Dartmouth College and graduated as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School.
Read about executive education
Other experts
Alison Davis Blake
Alison Davis-Blake, Ph.D., the former dean of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, has been appointed the eighth president of Bentley University, one of the top business schools in the country. The selection of Dr. D...
Kirk Fiedler
Background Kirk D. Fiedler is an associate professor of management information systems at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. He received a B.A. from Wittenberg University, an MBA and a M.S. in Information Systems and Systems Science from the University of Loui...
Popular Courses
Private Equity: Investing and Creating Value
The Wharton School
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Feb 2, 2025
Leading People and Teams
ESMT
Berlin, Germany
Nov 19
The Positive Leader: Deep Change and Organizational Transformation
Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Dec 1
Looking for an expert?
Contact us and we'll find the best option for you.