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Lila Preston

Lila Preston

Partner and Co-Head of Growth Equity, Generation Investment Management, Finance Leaders Fellowship

New York, NY

Lila joined Generation Investment Management in 2004 and is a Partner and Co-Head of the Growth Equity Strategy. Previously Lila was a director of finance and development at VolunteerMatch in San Francisco. Lila was also a Fulbright Fellow in Southern Chile focused on community-based conservation models. Lila received a BA in English and Latin American Studies from Stanford University and an MBA from London Business School. Lila speaks fluent Spanish. Lila currently serves as a Board Observer at Pivot Bio, Nature’s Fynd, and CiBO Technologies. She is also on the Board of Advisors at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. SPUN.earth, and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. Lila is a Fellow of the ninth class of the Finance Leaders Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.