Rene Stewart

René Yang Stewart is the Co-Head of the Vista Endeavor Funds, a Senior Managing Director at Vista Equity Partners, and sits on the firm's Private Equity Management Committee. Since joining the firm in 2007, she has helped launch the Endeavor platform, which currently manages over $1.7 billion in assets across two funds launched since 2017. Prior to her tenure at Vista, Stewart worked in the Corporate Finance group at Yahoo! focusing on mergers and acquisitions, and previously served in the Global Technology group at Lehman Brothers. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Columbia University and currently serves on the boards of several software companies, including Dispatch, Gatekeeper, WorkTango, and OfficeSpace. Her current investment focus centers on providing capital to growth-stage software and technology companies reaching critical inflection points in market capture and product innovation.