Investing Essentials: Private Equity (PE) Landscape for Career Changers

​Chicago Booth Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Faculty Advisor to the Svider Private Equity Program, Chris McGowan, will present on and discuss the changing PE landscape and the necessary skills for career changers focused on a transition into PE.

​McGowan’s private equity career began 28 years ago with AEA Investors in New York City, after earning an undergraduate degree in theoretical mathematics from Columbia University’s College of Arts and Sciences, and completing following two years of mergers and acquisitions training at Morgan Stanley. “

​Since Spring 2012, McGowan has taught at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business (“Booth”), and he currently serves there as an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship, and as an investor in residence and faculty aAvisor to at the Booth’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. In the Fall of 2025, he begins his 15th year teaching He has been teaching Booth’s Booth Investment Thesis Challenge (“BITC”) for more than 15 years and the his 13th year teaching Booth’s Private Equity and Venture Capital Lab for more than a decade. He is also conducting the 11th year of the Booth Private Equity Case Challenge for over 10 years

​This workshop is designed for Chicago Booth MBA students only.