Founder and CEO
Pershing Square
Bill Ackman is the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. which he founded in 2003. He is a member of the board of Universal Music Group N.V. (NA:UMG).
He serves as a member of the Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and as a member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors of the Harvard Business School.
Mr. Ackman is co-trustee of The Pershing Square Foundation, part of Pershing Square Philanthropies, that bets on innovative leaders solving humanity’s big societal, environmental, and health challenges.
Co-Chair - Keynote & Panels
Wharton PE/VC Conference 2025
Tushar is a second-year MBA student at The Wharton School. He currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Wharton PE/VC Conference and Co-President of the Wharton Sports Business Club.
Prior to Wharton, he worked at J.P. Morgan in London across 4 different roles in 4 years in the Office of the CFO. Most recently, he was an Associate in the ESG Regulatory Implementation & Disclosures team, leading key initiatives - such as the publication of the EU sustainable taxonomy disclosure - within the firm’s growing portfolio of ESG regulatory reporting programs in the EU. At Wharton, Tushar has been exploring his interest at the intersection of sports and investing and spent his MBA summer working as an Investment Banking Summer Associate at Morgan Stanley in the Infrastructure and Real Estate coverage groups.
Tushar graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 2019 with a BSc in Management and is a professionally qualified CIMA accountant.
