PE Investing – From Operators & Non-Traditional Backgrounds to Investors

(WIP – Draft)

Here is a summary / short list…

 

From Operators to PE Investors:

• David Rubenstein – Carlyle Group (was a policy advisor to the White House)
• Scott Sperling – from Aeneas Group to TH Lee
• Carl Eschenbach – from VMware to Sequoia (Growth PE Investing)
• Greg Brenneman – Continental Airlines to CCMP Capital
• Tom Gores  – Gores Technology to Platinum Equity
• Dan Akerson – from GM to Carlyle Group
• Former Consultants
  • Mitt Romney – from Bain Consulting to Bain Capital
• Former I-Bankers
  • Leon Black –  Drexel Burnham Lambert to Apollo Global Management
  • Stephen Schwarzman – Lehman Brothers to Blackstone
  • Robert Smith –  Kraft General Foods & Goldman Sachs to Vista Equity
  • Orlando Bravo – Morgan Stanley to Thoma Bravo
  • Ted Virtue – Bankers Trust to MidOcean Partners
  • Brian Conway –  Morgan Stanley & BT Securities to TA Associates
• WIP – many others doing PE buyouts/investments from their family offices
  • Howard Schulz at Maverick Capital

Also…there is a similar group in the world of VC.

From Operators to VC Investors:

• Reid Hoffman – from LinkedIn to Greylock
• Marc Andreessen – Netscape & Opsware to Andreessen Horowitz
• Doug Leone – Sales at HP to Sequoia Capital
• Michael Moritz – Journalist to Sequoia Capital (investments: Google, PayPal, etc.)
• Roelof Botha – Paypal to Sequoia Capital
• Founders of Kleiner Perkins (KPCB) – from Fairchild Semiconductor & HP to KPCB
• John Doerr – Sales at Intel to KPCB (investments: Google, Symantec, Intuit, etc.)
• Vinod Khosla – Sun Microsystems to KPCB
• David Fialkow & Joe Cutle – National Leisure to General Catalyst
• David Orffao – Allaire Corporation/Macromedia to General Catalyst
• Jim Kim – Cognos to Formation 8
• David Cummings – Pardot to Atlanta Tech Ventures
• WIP – also many former Operators investing from their family offices:
  • Mark Cuban – Broadband.com to his own investment firm
  • Bob Parsons – GoDaddy