L. Brooks Entwistle

Vice Chairman, Aspen Institute Board of Trustees / Board of Directors, EQT AB

Brooks Entwistle has served as a member of the Board of Directors of EQT AB, a top global private equity and alternative assets firm based in Stockholm, since 2022. Until the fall of 2024, Brooks served as SVP International at Ripple, a leading blockchain and crypto solutions provider, building their business across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America. Prior to joining Ripple, he served as Chief Business Officer International for Uber, responsible for business development and the firm’s relationships across Asia Pacific, EMEA and Latin America. Previously, he was the CEO of Everstone Capital, a premier India and Southeast Asia focused private equity and real estate investment firm.

Before joining Everstone in 2014, Brooks was a Partner at Goldman Sachs where he spent 22 years in various capacities, including 15 years based in Asia. Most recently, he was Chairman of Goldman Sachs South East Asia as well as CEO of Goldman Sachs Singapore. Prior to this, he spent 5 years in Mumbai as CEO and Founder of Goldman Sachs India where he was responsible for leading and building the firm across all divisions. He also served as the Founder & Co-Head of Goldman Sachs Asia’s High Technology Group. Earlier in his career, Brooks served as a District Electoral Supervisor with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC).

Brooks holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.

In addition to EQT AB, Brooks serves on the board of the Aspen Institute, The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College and Young Life.

Brooks and his wife Laura have three daughters and live in Singapore. Originally from Colorado, Brooks is an avid mountaineer and big mountain skier, and the oldest American to summit and ski an 8,000-meter peak, Cho Oyu in Tibet in 2016. He also summited Everest from the North Side in Tibet in 2017 in a guided climb record 27 days.