Julia LeStrange Stern

Julia joined Summit Partners in 2023. As the director of Summit’s Responsible Investing (RI) program, Julia is responsible for the development and integration of our RI approach in the firm’s investment process and operations.

Prior to Summit, Julia served as a Vice President at Thomas H. Lee Partners where she worked on compliance and ESG. Previously, she worked at Goldman Sachs both in the Merchant Banking Compliance and Financial Crime Compliance divisions. Prior to that, she worked at Booz Allen Hamilton in the Defense Intelligence practice.

Julia holds a BA, magna cum laude, in international relations and Italian studies from Brown University and an MPP from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.