Board of Directors

Philip Hammarskjold is a board member for Circana (formerly IRI and NPD).

Hammarskjold is the executive chair of Hellman & Friedman, is chair of the Firm’s Investment Committee, and is a member of the Compensation Committee. He previously served as H&F’s CEO from 2009 to 2017 and its co-CEO in 2018, after originally joining the firm in 1992. Prior to H&F, Hammarskjold was employed by the Corporate Advisory Department of Dominguez Barry Samuel Montagu in Sydney, Australia, and by the Merchant Banking Department of Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York.

Hammarskjold currently also serves on the boards of Cordis and Caliber. Additionally, he is chair of the UCSF board, the vice chair of the Princeton board of trustees, and serves on the board of advisors of the International Rescue Committee. He previously served as a director of numerous portfolio companies, including AlixPartners, Catalina, Change Healthcare (formerly Emdeon), Digitas, DoubleClick, GeoVera Insurance Group, Goodman Global, Grocery Outlet, Texas Genco, and Young & Rubicam.