John K. Hurley is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Cavalry Asset Management and Managing Member of TGK Ventures. Based in San Francisco, Cavalry invests primarily in publicly traded technology companies while TGK invests primarily in privately held companies and real estate.
In addition to serving on the Stimson Center Board of Directors, Mr. Hurley also serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute, the Board of Governors of the Middle East Institute, the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution, the Board of Directors of America’s Frontier Fund and the EastWest Council of Advisors on Track II Diplomacy. He is a Lecturer in Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is Chairman of the Princeton University History Department Advisory Board.
Mr. Hurley graduated with honors from Princeton in 1986, where he was Chairman of the Daily Princetonian. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and served for five years in the US Army. During the First Gulf War, as a battalion fire direction officer for the First Cavalry Division, he was awarded the Bronze Star.
After receiving his MBA from the GSB in 1993, he was an analyst and portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments and Managing Partner of Bowman Capital Management before founding Cavalry in 2003.