Mason Morfit
Mason Morfit is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of ValueAct Capital. Prior to this, he was a largely unknown stock picker, working at a largely unknown hedge fund. Then in 2013, he produced a detailed report on how to fix a lumbering Microsoft. This report won ValueAct and Morfit respect among Microsoft’s largest shareholders. He has lectured on issues of corporate governance and executive compensation at Stanford Law School’s Director’s College, the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, and the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Mason Morfit Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer
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President & Chief Investment Officer
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Board of Directors
Academic History
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BA Political Economy
- Morfit is a CFA charterholder.
- He worked in equity research for Credit Suisse First Boston’s health care group where he focused on the managed care industry.
- Microsoft added Morfit to its board, making him the company’s youngest director by nearly a decade.
- Morfit is a member of the Advisory Council for Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
- He serves on the Board of Directors of the Tipping Point Community and is the Treasurer of Boy Scouts Troop 14 in San Francisco.