Joshua Bekenstein ’80

Josh Bekenstein is a managing director and co-chair of Bain Capital, a leading global private investment firm headquartered in Boston.

After graduating from Yale and earning an MBA from Harvard Business School, Bekenstein helped found Bain Capital in 1984. Since then it has grown into a private alternative asset management firm with more than 1,000 employees in ten offices in seven countries around the world. Prior to business school, he spent several years doing strategic consulting at Bain & Company. In the private sector, he serves on the boards of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, BRP (Bombardier Recreational Products), Canada Goose, and Michaels Stores. Philanthropically, he chairs the board of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is a member of the board of trustees of the Environmental Defense Fund, the Pan Mass Challenge, and New Profit.

A co-chair of the For Humanity campaign, Bekenstein is also a member of the School of Management Board of Advisors. Previously, he was a member of the University Council and the Yale Corporation, serving as senior trustee from 2021 to 2025 and sitting on the Corporation committees on Alumni Affairs & Development, the Yale School of Medicine, and Investments. Bekenstein was a co-chair of the Yale Tomorrow Campaign and has been a co-chair of reunion gift committees for his class.