Julie Damgard Frist
About
Biography
Julie Damgard Frist ’93 currently serves as a director of Liberty Broadband Corporation, a company whose assets include Charter Communications, Inc., one of the largest providers of cable services in the United States. She previously served as vice chair of the board of directors of CapStar Financial Holdings, which she co-founded in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2008.
Frist devotes a substantial amount of time to non-profit board service, most notably the Frist Foundation, the Board of Dean’s Advisors at Harvard Business School, the City of Belle Meade (Finance and Budget Committee) and the Yale Institute for Global Health. Through this work, she has helped address inequities in education and healthcare. Prior board experiences in education include St. Paul’s School, The Ensworth School, and Teach for America–Nashville. She also co-chaired the major gifts committee for Harvard Business School’s Class of 1997, which set fundraising records for both 15th and 20th reunions.
Julie graduated from Yale College in 1993 and earned her MBA at Harvard Business School in 1997. After Yale, she worked in New York City for Goldman Sachs in the Investment Banking Division and returned there after HBS to join their Private Client Group. Julie then left Goldman to work in private equity until she moved to Nashville, TN in 2000.
Julie resides in Nashville with her husband, Tommy Frist III, and their three children.