Ilya Strebulaev

Ilya Strebulaev is a Senior Consultant with Compass Lexecon. He is the David S. Lobel Professor of Private Equity and Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, where he has been a faculty member since 2004. Ilya is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the founder and the faculty director of the Stanford GSB Venture Capital Initiative. He is an international expert in venture capital, private equity, financing innovation, and strategic financial decisions.

Ilya’s work has been widely published in leading academic journals. He has won numerous prestigious academic awards, including the First Paper Prize of the Brattle Award (Journal of Finance) and the Fama-DFA Prize (Journal of Financial Economics). His research has been featured by many major media sources, including the Harvard Business Review (on the VC mindset and on VC decision-making), MIT Sloan Management Review, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, Barron’s, Fast Company, Fortune, Venture Beat, and TechCrunch. He has been named LinkedIn Top Voice in 2023.

Professor Strebulaev has led many workshops and executive sessions on innovation trends, venture capital, the ecosystem of Silicon Valley, corporate innovation, corporate venture capital, and strategic decision making for senior business and government leaders around the world, as well as for partners of venture capital and private equity firms. He has also consulted global companies and investors on the valuation of VC-backed companies, selection of PE investments and managers, and PE portfolio allocation.

Ilya graduated from the London Business School with a doctorate in finance and also holds degrees from Lomonosov Moscow State University (B.Sc., economics) and the New Economic School, Moscow (M.A., economics).