![Phillipe Laffont](/sites/default/files/grid/speakers/0031U000027LewLQAS-cd7fda8005e06e64e9007564d453e5b5.png)
Philippe Laffont is the founder and portfolio manager of Coatue Management, a lifecycle investment platform focused on technology companies. Mr. Laffont graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 with a B.S. in Economics and M.Sc. in Computer Science. He worked as an analyst in management consulting for McKinsey & Co. in Madrid, Spain. Mr. Laffont joined Tiger Management LLC as a research analyst in 1996. He focused on telecommunications stocks while at Tiger until he left to found Coatue in 1999.