Private equity and venture capital investors

Tom Gores (Born: Tewfiq Georgious Arabic: توفيق جورجيوس) (born July 31, 1964) is an American businessman and investor.

Eugene Kleiner (12 May 1923 – 20 November 2003) was an Austrian-born American engineer and venture capitalist.

BaltCap is a private equity and venture capital investor in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania focusing investment on the growth and realization of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Kevin O'Connor (born April 4, 1961, in Livonia, Michigan, a suburb outside Detroit) is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Graphiq, a research engine founded in Santa Barbara in 2009.

William Floyd "Bill" Weld (born July 31, 1945) is an American attorney, businessman, and politician who served as the 68th Governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997.

Richard C. Blum (born July 31, 1935) is an American investment banker.

Robert Theodore Ammon (August 30, 1949 – October 20, 2001) was a high-profile American financier and investment banker.

Victor Posner (September 18, 1918 – February 11, 2002) was an American businessman.

Vivek Paul (born 1958) has been a public company CEO, investor and entrepreneur, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University.

Walter R. Arnheim (born October 10,1944, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an oil company executive and former director of the Washington National Opera.

Randal Keith Quarles (born September 5, 1957 in San Francisco) is founder and head of The Cynosure Group, a private investment firm backed by a network of large family offices in the United States.

Howard Stanley Marks (born April 22, 1946) is an American investor and writer.

Michael R. Eisenson is co-founder, managing director and chief executive officer of Charlesbank Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity investment firm based in Boston and New York.

Leonard I. Green (1934–2002) was the founding partner of leveraged buyout firm Leonard Green & Partners and chairman of the board of the Los Angeles Opera.

Antony P. "Tony" Ressler (born July 16, 1959) is an American businessman.

Darren T. Kimura (born September 10, 1974, Hilo, Hawaii) is an American businessman, inventor, and investor.

Larry Robbins (born 1969) is the American founder, portfolio manager, and CEO of Glenview Capital Management, a hedge fund with approximately $9.

Shanghai Venture Capital Company ("SHVC") is one of China's largest venture capital/private equity firm and a pioneer of Government Sponsored Fund (GBF) in China.

Jan Leschly (born 11 September 1940) is a Danish businessman and former professional tennis player.

David Michael Culver, CC OQ (born December 5, 1924) is a Canadian businessman and former Chairman and CEO of Alcan Aluminum Limited, from 1979 to 1989.

Asher Barry Edelman (born November 26, 1939) is an American financier.

John A. Canning Jr.

John Rutledge (born August 16, 1948) was one of the principal architects of the Ronald Reagan economic plan in 1980-81 and was an advisor to the George W.

Parag Saxena (Hindi: पराग सक्सेना; born April 27, 1955) is the Founding General Partner and CEO of New Silk Route.

Patrick Christopher Eilers (born September 3, 1966) is a former American football safety in the National Football League (NFL) for the Minnesota Vikings, Washington Redskins, and Chicago Bears.

Patrick Robert Chovanec (born February 14, 1970) is chief strategist at Silvercrest Asset Management, and an Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.

Erich Moritz Warburg (15 April 1900 – 9 July 1990) was a German and American businessman and a member of the prominent Warburg family of German-Jewish bankers.

Mansoor Ijaz (born August 1961) is a Pakistani-American venture financier and hedge-fund manager.

Howard Mark Lorber (born September 8, 1948) is an American businessman and investor.

Jon Moulton (born 15 October 1950) is a British venture capitalist.

Gregory Franks (born August 7, 1958) is an American wealth management executive and private investor.

Julius Anthony "Tony" Forstmann (born 1940) is one of the founding partners of Forstmann-Leff & Associates, one of the first hedge funds in the United States, along with Joel B.

Indrajit Solomon Arulampalam (known as Jitto Arulampalam) is an Australian businessman of Sri Lankan Tamil origin.

Bob Crowley is an American private equity investor and software executive.

Eric Arthur Kriss (born 1949) is an American musician and business executive who served as Secretary of Administration and Finance in Massachusetts Governor Romney's cabinet (January 2003 – October 2005), and as assistant A&F secretary under Governor William Weld (January 1991 – February 1993).

Guy Hands (born 27 August 1959) is an English financier and investor.

Lionel I. Pincus (March 2, 1931 — October 10, 2009) was an American businessman and philanthropist.

Peter Andreas Thiel (/ˈtiːl/; born October 11, 1967) is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and hedge fund manager.

James Christopher Flowers (born October 27, 1957) is an American private equity investor and investment manager focused on the financial services industry.

Robertus H. L. M.

Amin Khoury is an American businessman who has founded and developed companies in the scientific instrument, medical services, medical devices and semi-conductor process equipment businesses.

Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh (Urdu: عبدالحفیظ شیخ‎) is a Pakistani political economist of international repute with over 30 years of experience in economic policy-making, management and implementation.

Peter George "Pete" Peterson (Peter Petropoulos) (born June 5, 1926) is an American businessman, investment banker, philanthropist, and author, who served as United States Secretary of Commerce from February 29, 1972 to February 1, 1973.

David Alan Stockman (born November 10, 1946) is a former businessman and U.

James Coulter (born 1959) is an American investment manager, the co-founder of private equity firm TPG Capital, originally known as the Texas Pacific Group.

Bill Maris is a venture capitalist and the first CEO to lead GV, a venture capital firm established by Maris and funded through Alphabet.

Andrew J. "Flip" Filipowski is a Polish American technology entrepreneur born in 1950 in Chicago.

Anil Kumar (born 1958) was a top senior partner and director at management consultancy McKinsey & Company, where he co-founded McKinsey's offices in Silicon Valley and India and created its Internet practice (representing a quarter of McKinsey's business at the time) among others.

Daniel Anthony D’Aniello (born September 14, 1946) is an American businessman.

Gerald W. Schwartz, OC (born 1941) is the founder, chairman and CEO of Onex Corporation.

Private equity in the 2000s relates to one of the major periods in the history of private equity and venture capital.

Private equity in the 1990s relates to one of the major periods in the history of private equity and venture capital.

Stephen Pagliuca (born January 16, 1955) is an American private equity investor, co-chairman of Bain Capital, and co-owner of the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

William Edward Simon (November 27, 1927 – June 3, 2000) was a businessman, a Secretary of Treasury of the U.

William E. Ford (born June 18, 1961) is an American businessman.

Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.

William E. "Bill" Conway Jr.

William Henry Trotter "Bucky" Bush (born July 14, 1938) is the youngest son of Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush, the youngest brother of former President George H.

Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (May 26, 1910 – July 11, 2004) was an American philanthropist, businessman, financier, and major conservationist.

Steven Lawrence Rattner (born July 5, 1952) is an American financier who served as lead adviser to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry in 2009 for the Obama administration.

Marc J. Leder (born 1962) an American businessperson who currently serves as the co-chief executive officer of Sun Capital Partners, Inc.

Marc Lasry is a billionaire Moroccan-born American hedge fund manager.

Naissance Capital is a Swiss Investment Boutique that finds or creates niche investment opportunities.

Robert A. Knox (born March 4, 1952), is a private equity investor, a founder and Senior Managing Director of Cornerstone Equity Investors.

Robert W. Matschullat is a private equity investor, and served from October 1995 until June 2000 as Vice Chairman of the board of directors and Chief Financial Officer of The Seagram Company Ltd.

Thomas "Thom" Weisel (born February 1941) is an American banker, businessman, and investor.

Rajat Kumar Gupta ([ɾɔdʒot̪ kumaɾ ɡupt̪o]; born 2 December 1948) is an American businessman and philanthropist who served a two-year term in U.

Chaim "Poju" Zabludowicz (born 6 April 1953) is a Finnish-British business magnate, investor, art collector and philanthropist.

Roger Charles Altman (born April 2, 1946) is an American investment banker, the founder and executive chairman of Evercore, and a former Democratic politician.

Gideon Lee Yu (born May 14, 1971) is a Korean-American sports executive and a high technology investor and advisor.

Robert Muse Bass (born 1948) is an American businessman and philanthropist.

Clifford Todd Boro is an American entrepreneur and startup investor.

Lyndon Lea (born 13 January 1969) is an English financier and investor, known for co-founding Lion Capital which specializes in making investments in the consumer sector.

Alan Patricof (born 1934) is an American investor and one of the early pioneers of the venture capital and private equity industries.

Alexis Ohanian (born April 24, 1983) is an Armenian-American internet entrepreneur, activist and investor based in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, best known for co-founding the social news website Reddit, helping launch the travel search website Hipmunk, and starting the social enterprise Breadpig.

Arif Masood Naqvi is the Founder and Group Chief Executive of The Abraaj Group, a private equity investor operating in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Turkey and Central Asia.

Carl Edwin Berg (born 1938) is an American businessman, real estate investor, and venture capitalist who has been included in Forbes magazine's list of the 400 richest people in America numerous times.

David Bonderman (born November 27, 1942) is an American businessman and philanthropist.

David Evans Shaw (born 1951) is an American managing partner of Black Point Group, with wide ranging interests in technology companies and public service.

Harold Irving "Irv" Grousbeck (born July 20, 1934) is an American entrepreneur, professor at Stanford Business School, and co-owner of the National Basketball Association basketball franchise the Boston Celtics.

Ira Leon Rennert (born May 31, 1934) is an American investor and businessman.

James Caan CBE (born Nazim Khan, 28 December 1960) is a British-Pakistani entrepreneur and television personality.

Samuel Esson Jonah, KBE (born 19 November 1949) is a Ghanaian businessman, the Executive Chairman of Jonah Capital, an equity fund based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Saul Phillip Steinberg (August 13, 1939 – December 7, 2012) was an American businessman and financier.