John Regan

Founding Partner 
Chief Investment Officer

John Regan serves as Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of PermCap, a Multi-Family Office and Outsourced CIO, based in New York City and Charleston, SC. Founded in 2011, PermCap has grown to $4.5 billion in assets, serving endowments, foundations and high-net-worth families.

Prior to founding PermCap, John was a Senior Investment Officer at Cornell University’s endowment, responsible for hedge funds, private equity, and overall endowment liquidity. John served as a member of the Executive Management Group, overseeing all endowment activities, and helped lead the restructuring of the endowment after the 2008 financial crisis.

Prior to Cornell, John was the Founding Partner and CIO of Steeple Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund with offices in San Francisco and New York. John also served as a Principal and Portfolio Manager with Andor Capital, a $10 billion equity hedge fund. He has held senior investment positions with Bessent Capital, JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management and Train Smith Investment Council. John began his investment career at Morgan Stanley in commodity trading and equity research.

John is a long-standing member of the Tufts University Board of Advisors for Athletics and served as Co-Chair of the Tufts Athletics Campaign. He is an Advisory Board member of The Citadel’s Baker School of Business and served as a foundation board member at The Porter-Gaud School in Charleston, South Carolina. John was a board member at Meetup, Inc. for 3 years, representing PermCap’s ownership in the company until its sale in January 2024. John served for 15 years as a Trustee of Poly Prep Country Day School, where he also chaired the Investment and Advancement Committees. From 2007 to 2019, he served on the Salvation Army’s $2.5 billion Endowment Investment Committee. John has previously served on the Advisory Board of Girls Who Invest, a non-profit dedicated to expanding female careers in asset management.

John graduated Cum Laude with a BS in Political Science from Tufts University where he competed for four years as a member of the Men’s Varsity Track and Cross-Country Teams. He earned an MBA in Finance from NYU’s Stern School of Business and studied abroad at The Yale in China Program at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.