Jared Carney

Jared founded Lightdale, a global holding and strategic advisory firm, in 2012 as the natural evolution of a career spent building companies and relentlessly forging partnerships with business leaders, influential industrialists and philanthropists across the globe.

A private family investment firm, Lightdale also works with sophisticated investors, family offices and large pools of capital, corporations and governments which are interested not only in generating returns, but also in effecting socially impactful change. Through Lightdale’s collective insights and trusted network the firm is able to connect these constituents with fresh, disruptive and transformational ideas.

Lightdale has many investments and joint ventures in dynamic growth regions of the world such as the Arctic and Europe, as well as interests in real estate, life sciences, consumer, technology, infrastructure, natural resources, food, hospitality, healthcare, education and financial innovation/services.

Prior to Lightdale, Carney served as Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at the Milken Institute working closely with its Chairman, Michael Milken. For almost 10 years he led the annual Global Conference, the world’s largest gathering of the capital markets. During his tenure, Carney was instrumental in exponentially increasing the Institute’s programmatic and revenue growth as it became the world’s leading preeminent financial think tank. Among other accomplishments, he established the Global Capital Markets Advisory Council, the Young Leaders Circle and its Asia Center in Singapore. He also served as a senior advisor to Knowledge Universe, at the time the world’s largest privately owned for-profit education company.

Before joining the Institute and Knowledge Universe, Carney was a pioneer in the Internet/high-tech and media industries where he successfully founded, launched or helped build a number of disruptive companies and technologies which he helped steer to successful exits. Examples include launching Java for Sun Microsystems, establishing Fox Networks web presence (X-Files and all owned & operated TV stations), co-starting Intranets.com, an Idealab company (sold to WebEx), and Captura (sold to Concur).

Jared Carney is Vice-Chairman of McKinley Capital, a $5bn AUM multi-strat asset manager based in Anchorage, Alaska. McKinley is also the largest private investor in the state. Carney is active in Education investments with the Seminal Capital Fund (SemCap). Jared is a venture partner at SparkLabs - focusing on strategic initiatives, including their SPAC. Formerly a director of Microbion Corp., Brandenburg Realty and a number of tech firms.