Board Members

Elected 2025

George Kadifa is a co-founder and managing director of Sumeru Equity Partners. Kadifa has four decades of operating experience in the technology sector. Prior to joining Sumeru Equity Partners in 2015, Kadifa was most recently executive vice president at Hewlett-Packard, reporting to the HP CEO and member of the Executive Committee. While at HP, Kadifa held several responsibilities, from leading growth initiatives and alliance programs with key partners, service providers and the largest customers, to leading the $4-billion HP Software business. Kadifa previously served as operating partner at Silver Lake, a global technology investment firm with over $75 billion of assets under management. He was responsible for driving growth and operational improvement in a wide range of enterprises within the company portfolio of the firm's large-cap investment fund. Kadifa has significant expertise in building and managing technology businesses. He has held various leadership positions at technology and management consulting companies such as IBM, Corio Corporation (founder), Oracle, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Xerox PARC and Fairchild. Kadifa holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the American University in Beirut, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A., from the University of Chicago.

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