John Regan

Founding Partner 
Chief Investment Officer

With over 30 years of investment experience across multiple asset classes, John Regan serves as the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of PermCap. Prior to co-founding PermCap in 2011, he served as the Senior Investment Officer at the Cornell University endowment, responsible for hedge funds, private equity, and overall endowment liquidity. John functioned as a member of the Executive Management Group, overseeing all endowment activities and the restructuring of the endowment after the 2008 financial crisis. Prior to Cornell, John founded Steeple Capital, a $600mm equity hedge fund with offices in San Francisco and New York. Previously, John was a Principal and Portfolio Manager with Andor Capital, a $10 billion equity hedge fund. Since 1990, he has held senior investment positions with Bessent Capital, J.P. Morgan Fleming Asset Management and Train Smith Investment Counsel. 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 currently a foundation board member of The Porter-Gaud School, and a member of the Advisory Board at The Citadel’s Baker School of Business. John was a board member at Meetup.com 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, John served on the Salvation Army’s $2.5bn Endowment Investment Committee. He 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 B.S. in Political Science from Tufts University, where he competed as a member of the Men’s Varsity Track and Cross-Country Teams for four years. 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.