Dianne McKeever MS
Chief Investment Officer
Ides Capital Management LP
New York University
In 2015 when McKeever launched Ides Capital, she became the only woman running an activist hedge fund that’s shaking up U.S. companies. Shares of Boingo Wireless a provider of Wi-Fi hotspots have risen since McKeever revealed her campaign to amplify the company’s value in March of 2016. For Ides, the rewards have been even greater: Its investment has returned more than 55% since the firm began buying the stock in late 2015. McKeever has made corporate governance a pillar of her strategy, and in doing so she has become known as a champion of boardroom gender diversity. McKeever graduated college in 2001 with dual degrees in chemistry and chemical engineering at New York University and the Stevens Institute of Technology.