Generation Investment Management

The firm is run by its partnership, led by co-founders David Blood and Al Gore alongside senior partners including Lila Preston, Mark Ferguson, and others. The Global Equity and Growth Equity strategies each have dedicated investment committees drawn from the partnership. No single individual controls allocation decisions.

Generation does not use negative screens or a separate ESG overlay. Its research process evaluates sustainability factors — environmental impact, supply chain practices, governance quality — as inputs into the same financial model that determines valuation. The firm argues that companies well-positioned for the transition to a low-carbon economy will outperform over the long term.

Generation is an independent, employee-owned asset manager. It is not a family office, nor is it a venture capital firm in the classic sense — its Growth Equity strategy targets expansion-stage companies rather than early-stage startups. The firm competes with both long-only public equity managers and private equity growth funds.

Generation primarily offers commingled fund structures for its Global Equity and Growth Equity strategies. The firm also maintains relationships with a limited number of large institutional investors. It does not operate as a platform with dozens of separate mandates.

Al Gore serves as Chairman and is involved in high-level strategic direction, but day-to-day investment decisions are made by the partnership team. The firm has publicly stated that Gore's role does not involve lobbying or government relations on behalf of portfolio companies, and his climate advocacy operates separately from the investment platform.

The Generation Foundation is a separate philanthropic entity funded by partners of Generation Investment Management. It focuses on climate justice, economic inclusion, and sustainability. Legally and operationally distinct from the investment business, the Foundation does not co-invest with or receive financial benefit from the management company's fund performance.

Generation evaluates returns over rolling seven-year periods, a structure intended to reduce the short-term pressure that drives many institutional managers. The firm explicitly states that this encourages holding companies through business cycles rather than trading around quarterly earnings surprises.