Top Gun

Ann Leamon also handles corporate communications for Bessemer Venture Partners, a global private equity investor. She came to Harvard after six years as a senior business analyst at L.L. Bean and three years at Central Maine Power Company as a senior economic and load forecaster.  At Harvard Business School, Ann co-founded the Center for Case Development. She left that position to collaborate with Professors Josh Lerner and Felda Hardymon in the further development of the Venture Capital & Private Equity course. She has authored more than 100 cases, co-authored (with Professors Lerner and Hardymon) two editions of Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook (Wiley), and is deeply involved in supporting the VCPE Game, an online simulation of a venture capital-private equity market. She holds a B.A. (Honors) in German from University of King’s College/Dalhousie, an M.A. in Economics from University of Montana, where she studied urban redevelopment, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars.  She grew up in Poland, Maine, and attended Hebron Academy.