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Biography
Jean Pierre Conte is the chairman and managing director of Genstar Capital, a leading middle-market private equity firm with investments in healthcare, software, financial services and industrial technology. A graduate of Colgate University and Harvard Business School, J-P joined Genstar Capital in 1995.
A businessman, philanthropist and policy advocate, J-P has founded and funded multiple philanthropic organizations to support educational equity, immigration reform and conservation.
Vision
J-P Conte strongly believes that every American should have the opportunity to thrive, irrespective of their place of birth, gender, race, or sexuality. Everyone should have the opportunity to thrive in a safe, stable, and sustainable environment: both here in the US, and overseas.
The J-P Conte Family Foundation supports educational equity, social mobility and justice for all.
APEC
J-P Conte co-hosting his Excellency PM Srettha Thavisin of the Kingdom of Thailand, and the Thailand delegation, alongside HP CEO Enrique Lores, and other CEOs, at the APEC CEOs-Leader Dinner, SF, 2023.
Key Values
J-P supports a range of organizations, charities and research committees to promote educational equity, social mobility, democracy and environmental sustainability. He believes in supporting projects with longevity and dignity at their core, rather than superficial responses.
You can find out more about his key philanthropic projects here.
SEO Scholars
J-P Conte meeting with SEO Scholars to discuss social equity and pathways into finance and business, 2018.
The JP Conte Family Foundation
Building a sustainable, responsible tomorrow
J-P is passionate about giving young people from disadvantaged backgrounds the opportunity to succeed and gain educational opportunities despite the challenges they might face, and he supports organizations which help children from immigrant families. He has also committed to helping underprivileged high school students pursue college degrees. He is active in several organizations that help on this front, and sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO Scholars) and 10,000 Degrees in San Francisco, California.
He established the Conte First Generation Fund to assist first generation students pursue degrees at 11 major universities – including his alma maters, Colgate University, and Harvard University – in honor of his own parents, Pierre and Isabel Conte, who emigrated respectively from France and Cuba to pursue a better life in the United States. He also founded the Conte Task Force on Comprehensive Immigration Reform at the Hoover Institution in 2011, and was recently appointed to the Board of Overseers at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In 2024, Conte was announced by the Hoover Institution as the founder and financial backer of the new J-P Conte Family Senior Fellow at the new J-P Conte Initiative on Immigration.
J-P cares deeply about environmental conservation, and works closely with Pepperwood Preserve, an ecological research institute which educates communities, governments and young people on environmental challenges in Northern California. He serves on a number of other charitable and academic boards, including the board of trustees for Colgate University, from which he graduated, UCSF, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF). He also sits on the foundation board of CPMC hospital in San Francisco.
