Masters Week links the university’s outstanding alumni with students who can benefit from their experiences and knowledge.
Masters are invited back to campus to meet with students in the classroom, living units and at student organization meetings to share various ways to apply their formal education to working situations and career goals.
Candidates for Masters Week are alumni who have shown great promise, success and leadership in their fields. The selection of the Masters is competitive. Each spring, a committee of students, faculty and administration make recommendations to the chancellor, who chooses the participants for the program.
Jim Davidson, ‘81, is co-founder and chairman of Silver Lake, a global private investment firm, and chairman of the executive committee.
Prior to Silver Lake, Davidson was a managing director at Hambrecht & Quist, a technology-focused investment bank and venture capital firm (now part of JP Morgan Chase & Co., “H&Q”), where he managed the technology investment banking business and the mergers and acquisitions business.
He also serves on the boards of numerous nonprofit organizations.
Davidson is hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences.
Read the Scarlet article here and the biography page from Silver Lake here.
