Gwill York
Co-founder and Managing Partner,
Lighthouse Capital Partners

Gwill is co-founder and managing director of Lighthouse Capital Partners. Since its founding in 1994, Lighthouse has committed over $2 billion in capital to over 500 companies in six limited partnerships.  She led investments in biotech, medical devices and services, information technology, communications equipment, e-commerce, Internet infrastructure, semiconductors, software, and clean tech companies. Gwill served on the Board of the New England Venture Capital Association for 9 years until 2014.   Lighthouse Series A investments include Netflix, Vertex, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, NVIDIA, NxStage, Insulet, Foundation Medicine, ZocDoc,, Impossible Foods, and Rent the Runway. 

In 2018, she joined the Board of Directors of Sofina, a public investment company based in Brussels and Singapore, investing globally in entrepreneurs and family businesses directly and indirectly through leading venture and private equity firms. AUM over $8 billion.

Since moving to the Boston area over 30 years ago, Gwill has committed significant time to mission driven organizations including as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Science, Chair of the Board of Fellows at Harvard Medical School, President of the Board of Trustees of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and member of the Boards of Trustees of Mass General Brigham, One Mind, BB&N School, and the Women’s Foundation of Boston.

Gwill was appointed an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School starting in the fall of 2009 and was re-appointed annually until her election to the Board of Overseers of Harvard University in the spring of 2013. She earned her undergraduate degree in urban and developing economics from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and lives in Cambridge, MA with her husband and near her two grown sons. She started her career at Salomon Brothers, Fidelity Investments and Comdisco Ventures.