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 at Stanford University, where he has been a faculty member since 2004. Professor Strebulaev 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. Professor Strebulaev has provided expert testimony in federal and state courts and before arbitration panels on a variety of issues related to financial economics, venture capital industry customs and practices, and private capital markets.

Professor Strebulaev’s research has been widely published in leading academic journals in economics and finance, including the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Finance, and Journal of Financial Economics. He has won numerous prestigious awards for his academic research, including the First Paper Prize of the Brattle Award (Journal of Finance) and the Fama-DFA Prize (Journal of Financial Economics). His research has also been featured in major media outlets, including the Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, Barron’s, Fast Company, Fortune, Venture Beat, and TechCrunch.

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 for domestic and international companies and investors on a wide variety of operational and strategic issues, including the valuation of VC-backed companies, contractual terms of early-stage investments, selection of PE investments and fund managers, and PE portfolio allocation.