Est. MMXXIV — By Invitation
A quiet room
for the people
who set the rooms.
AlumNorth is a private mastermind for alumni of the world's leading institutions — convened in circles of nine, held in confidence, and answerable only to their members.
§ 01 — A Letter
The most consequential rooms are still the smallest. Not the conference, not the summit — but nine people around a table who have earned each other's honesty.
We began AlumNorth because the counsel our members needed did not exist in any club, any WhatsApp, any conference badge. It existed only in the quiet dinner after — the one you were never invited to.
So we built the dinner. And then the year around it. Membership is not sold. It is offered, once, by the members you are being asked to sit with.
— The Founding Nine
§ 02 — The Architecture
Three instruments.
One instrument only.
Everything AlumNorth does is in service of a single question: who do you call, and what do they owe you when you do?
The Circle
Nine members. One table. Circles are convened by discipline and stage — founders, operators, capital, craft — so counsel is peer to peer and confidences are held.
The Convenings
Quarterly gatherings in New York, London, and one wildcard capital. Closed-door dinners, a working session, and one evening reserved for nothing but conversation.
The Register
A private register of introductions — investors, operators, board seats, physicians, counsel. Requested by name, answered within the week, never brokered publicly.
Pl. I — Roundtable, New York, February
§ 03 — The Year
The calendar of a member.
- FebruaryNew YorkWinter roundtable & founders' dinner
- MayLondonCapital & policy convening at a private club
- SeptemberKyotoWildcard: three days of craft, silence and walking
- NovemberNew YorkAnnual close — the Register is refreshed
§ 04 — The Room
Who is at the table.
A composite drawn from current membership. Names are withheld — that is the point.
Seat 01
Founder, quantum computing
MIT '11
Seat 02
Partner, sovereign fund
Harvard '04
Seat 03
Chief Executive, biotech
Stanford '09
Seat 04
Director, contemporary art
Yale '07
Seat 05
Managing Partner, venture
Princeton '02
Seat 06
Author & policy adviser
Oxford '05
“For the first time in years, I have a room where I am neither the smartest nor the most senior — only the most honest.”
§ 05 — Admission
Request an
invitation.
We open two seats per circle each year. Requests are read by a member of the founding nine. A reply — either way — arrives within twenty-one days.