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  1. Carl Icahn

    Carl Celian Icahn (born February 16, 1936) is an American billionaire financier, corporate raider, and private equity investor.

  2. Mitt Romney

    Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12 1947, better known as Mitt Romney), was the 70th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Elected in 2002, Romney served one term and did not seek re-election in 2006; his term ended January 4, 2007. Romney has started his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, having formally announced his candidacy on February 13, 2007. He made his announcement at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

  3. Guy Hands

    Guy Hands is Terra Firma Capital Partner's Chief Executive Officer and Founder. Guy sits on the Investment Advisory Committee and General Partners' boards. Guy started his career with Goldman Sachs International where he went on to become Head of Eurobond Trading and then Head of Goldman Sachs' Global Asset Structuring Group.

  4. Henry Kravis

    Henry R. Kravis (born January 6 1944 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States) is an American business financier and investor, notable for co-founding and heading the leading private equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). With an estimated current net worth of around $3 billion, he is ranked by "Forbes" as the 107th richest person in the world.

  5. David Rubenstein

    David Rubenstein is the co-founder of The Carlyle Group, an American private equity firm. Rubenstein grew up in Baltimore, and graduated from the Baltimore City College and then from Duke University "magna cum laude" in 1970. He earned his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1973. Prior to starting Carlyle, Rubenstein was a domestic policy advisor to President Jimmy Carter and worked in private practice in Washington, D.C. He lives in Bethesda, …

  6. Bruce Wasserstein

    Bruce Wasserstein (born December 25, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American investment banker and businessman. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School, and is currently the Chairman and CEO of Lazard LLC. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Morris Wasserstein, a wealthy textile executive, and his wife, Lola Schleifer, Wasserstein is one of five children.

  7. Stephen A. Schwarzman

    Stephen A. Schwarzman (born 14 February 1947) is the Chairman and co-founder of the Blackstone Group private-equity firm.

  8. Damon Buffini

    Damon Buffini is an English businessman, who heads the private equity company Permira.

  9. Philip Yea

    Yea was in such demand in 2004 that he turned down the chief executive's job at British Land to take the same title at 3i Group, where he became the first "outsider" to run the company. He joined after five years in private equity with Investcorp and quickly showed his independence by changing the co-investment rules for 3i executives - the group was previously different from other private equity firms in that managers were not obliged to put their money into deals.

  10. Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

    Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., KBE, (born in Mineola, New York on March 1, 1942) was chairman of the board of IBM from April 1993 until his retirement in December 2002. He also served as chief executive officer until March 2002. In January 2003, he assumed the position of chairman of The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm located in Washington, DC. He was formerly CEO of RJR Nabisco, and also held senior positions at American Express and McKinsey & Company.

  11. Steve Feinberg

    Stephen A. Feinberg (March 29, 1960 -) is an American businessman active in the field of private equity. He is the founder and head of Cerberus Capital Management.

  12. John Caudwell

    John Caudwell is an English billionaire who has made most of his money in the mobile phone business. The Caudwell Group is a mobile communications company, founded by John and his brother Brian Caudwell in 1987 as Midland Mobile Phones, a small local business which took 8 months to sell its first order of 26 phones. The group now sells 26 phones every minute. Developing from a small dealership to a wholesale distributor, turnover expanded to £13 million in 1991, …

  13. Tom Gores

    Tom Gores, born 1965, Israel, is a self made financier whose investment holdings include California leveraged buyout business Platinum Equity, where he is founder, chairman and chief executive officer. Through Platinum Equity, Mr. Gores owns a portfolio of operating companies in a broad range of business markets including information technology, telecommunications, logistics, and chemical and industrial manufacturing, distribution and service. Mr.

  14. Anne Glover

    Anne Glover is CEO and co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in European high-technology companies. Prior to founding Amadeus in 1997, she was with Apax Partners & Company Ventures, where she was a member of the investment team. She also has experience as a business angel, investing in UK-based information technology start-ups. Glover has also had significant operating experience with Virtuality Group plc, …

  15. Luc Bertrand

    Luc Bertrand (b. 14 February, 1951) is a Belgian businessman. He is at present the CEO of Ackermans & van Haaren, which is business concern active in construction, dredging, and environmental services, human resources services, financial services, and private equity. The company is headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium.

  16. Kneeland Youngblood

    Kneeland Youngblood is founding partner of Pharos Capital Group, a private equity firm that focuses on providing growth and expansion capital to businesses in health care services, business services and technology. Mr. Youngblood was chairman of the American Beacon Funds, a $30 billion mutual fund company and is completing the buyout of the $65 billion in assets holding Company, American Beacon Advisors along with TPG.

  17. Theodore J. Forstmann

    Theodore J. Forstmann (b. 1940) is one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm. He is unmarried, and has no children. Forstmann is a graduate of Greenwich Country Day School, Phillips Academy, Yale University and Columbia Law School. At Yale he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He is usually known as "Ted" (occasionally "Teddy" to friends and family). Before founding Forstmann Little in 1978 with his late brother, …

  18. John D. Howard

    John D. Howard is CEO of Bear Stearns Merchant Banking Group and Senior Managing Director of Bear Stearns and Company. He is the manager of the $3 billion Bear Stearns Merchant Banking Fund III. Howard has more than 20 years of experience in the private equity business. Prior to joining Bear Stearns in 1997, Howard was co-Chief Executive Officer of Vestar Capital Partners, a private equity firm specializing in management buyouts.

  19. Joaquin Avila

    Joaquin Avila is Managing Director of the global private equity firm, Carlyle Group, where he is responsible for researching and discovering opportunities in the field of buyout investments. He was formerly a Managing Director and Head of Latin America for Lehman Brothers where he concentrated on the development and implementation of regional strategic plans. He has also worked for Banco Santander and Bankers Trust and was a board member of Unica, …

  20. Laurance Rockefeller

    Laurance Spelman Rockefeller was a venture capitalist, financier, philanthropist, a major conservationist and a prominent third-generation member of the Rockefeller family. He was the fourth child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and brother to John D. III, Nelson, Winthrop and David.

  21. Peter George Peterson

    Peter George Peterson (born June 5, 1926) is an American businessman, investment banker, fiscal conservative, author, and politician whose most prominent political position was as United States Secretary of Commerce from February 29, 1972 to February 1, 1973. He is Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Senior Chairman of the private equity firm, the Blackstone Group. His net worth is $1.9 Billion.

  22. Ziad K. Abdelnour

    Ziad K. Abdelnour (Ziad Khalil Abdelnour) is a New York-based financier and venture capitalist. He is also the founder and president of the United States Committee for a Free Lebanon (USCFL), an advocacy organization which established the "Middle East Intelligence Bulletin" in 1999, a joint publication of Middle East Forum, founded by Daniel Pipes. Abdelnour was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1961.

  23. Henry B. Schacht

    Henry B. Schacht is managing director and senior advisor of Warburg Pincus LLC, a global private equity firm. He previously served as chairman and chief executive officer of Lucent Technologies, and chairman and CEO of Cummins Inc., a manufacturer of diesel engines.

  24. James P. Kelley

    James P. Kelley is President and founding partner of Vestar Capital Partners, a $7 billion private equity firm which concentrates its investments in management buyouts, growth capital, and recapitalizations. Prior to the founding of Vestar in 1988, he was a senior executive with the Management Buyout Group of First Boston. Kelley has also practiced law with a leading Colorado law firm.

  25. Mark Coutts

    “Get out of the rat race in 12 months or less, and become financially free! Let me show you how to do this and sustain for you, your family, and future generations..." I have a PROVEN system that will work in ANY economy to create wealth and "an economy within an economy." Email me for additional info on this. http://www.ezleadcapture.com/member/steve1.htm Connect on the same email address at plaxo.com, linkedin.com, facebook.com, xing.com, and fastpitchnetworking.com

  26. Robert Crants

    Robert Crants (http://www.pharosfunds.com/Robert-Crants.html), Vice President of Pharos Capital Group, was named a director of Windsor Health Group, Inc., a managed care company for seniors operating government sponsored health plans, Pharos announced today. He joins Richard Wagers of Vanderbilt Health Services; Phil Hertik , CEO of Windsor; Mike Bailey , President/COO of Windsor; and Willis Jones , Windsor CFO, on the company's five-person board.

  27. Boris Fyodorov

    Boris Grigoryevich Fyodorov was a significant Russian economist, political figure, and reformer. He is doctor of economics and author of 200 publications. He served as Russian finance minister from 1993 until 1994. His term was ended with his resignation. Boris Fedorov was minister of finance of Russian Federation also in 1990. From 1991-1992 he worked for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. In 1992 he was director of the World Bank.

  28. Nicholas C. Forstmann

    Nicholas C. "Nick" Forstmann (1947 - 2001) was one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm. Nicholas Forstmann graduated from Georgetown University in 1969, and began working at the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company. In 1975, Nicholas Forstmann joined Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a company with which he would later develop a rivalry. He founded Forstmann Little with his older brother, Ted, and Brian Little, in 1978.

  29. Kyriakos Mitsotakis

    Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Kyriakos returned to the other side of the Atlantic where he continued his studies at Stanford University from which received a Masters in the International Economic Plan. He continued the circle of studies and returned to Harvard where he was awarded with an MBA. From 1995 to 1997, he went to London and went to the consultancy McKinsey & Company. He later came back to Greece where he worked at Alpha Ventures, a private equity subsidiary of Alpha Bank.

  30. Joseph Cari Jr.

    Joseph A. Cari, Jr. (born 8 October 1952) is an American lawyer, businessman, private equity investor, and public policy expert from Chicago Illinois. Cari is a Senior Managing Director at Integration Capital & Trade, Inc., is on the Advisory Board of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.. and is a member of the Human Rights Watch in New York New York.

  31. William Brian Little

    William Brian Little (known as Brian Little) (1942-2000) was one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm. He graduated from Colgate University in 1964, and he later served as the chairman of the Board of Trustees. An art building at Colgate was named Little Hall after him in 2001. Brian Little worked as an analyst at White Weld & Co. in Los Angeles. He continued to work at firm after it was acquired by Merrill Lynch, …

  32. Robert E. Myers - McCarthy Group LLC

    Robert E. Myers ("Bob") (born December 11, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a partner of the McCarthy Capital Corporation (McCarthy), a private equity firm which is a subsidiary of the McCarthy Group, LLC, based in Omaha, NE. Mr. Myers is responsible for evaluating acquisition opportunities, structuring and financing deals, and consummating transactions. Mr. Myers also assists with existing portfolio management. In addition Mr.

  33. Dana C. Bradford - McCarthy Group LLC

    Dana C. Bradford ("Dana") (born March 3, 1965 in Berkeley, CA) is the president of the McCarthy Capital Corporation (McCarthy), a private equity firm which is a subsidiary of the McCarthy Group, LLC., based in Omaha, NE. McCarthy has nearly $1B in assets under management. Mr. Bradford manages the day-to-day operations of McCarthy. He is on the board of directors for a number of companies such as Customer Service Profiles, NRG Media, Southwest Value Partners, LLC, …

  34. Arthur Wellesley Earl of Mornington

    Arthur Gerald Wellesley, Earl of Mornington (born 31 January 1978 in Paddington, Middlesex) is the son of Arthur Charles Valerian Wellesley, Marquess of Douro, and after his father heir to the Dukedom of Wellington. Through his mother, HRH Princess Antonia of Prussia, he is a descendant of Queen Victoria, a great-great-grandson of Wilhelm II of Germany and is 350th in the line of succession to the British Throne.

  35. John W. Moussach Jr.

    John W. Moussach, Jr. a Hungarian-American (born January 6 1971 in Akron, Ohio, United States) is an industrialist, business financier, private equity investor, restaurateur and philanthropist. The son of John W. Moussach, a mechanical engineer who held commercially successful patents for methods of tire manufacturing, Moussach, Jr. went to high school at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, then majored in ethics, …

  36. Simone Bruschi

    SKILLS SUMMARY; Corporate strategy: positioning & strategy. M&A: defined acquisition plans for a finance holding entering biotech, telecommunications, It markets. Web IT strategy: web strategy web framework selection addressing capex and opex reduction. Marketing strategy: market strategy for a TelCo entering the IT business. Organization and Program Management. BPR: Devised the business process structure and change plan for Telecommunication, Media; - operational cost . . .

  37. Anonymous Spocker

    Leads the software research team in Ovum, globally - one of the best know analyst firms. Wide range of senior roles through different parts of the global software industry, with particular emphasis on the commercial and visionary elements of the industry.

  38. Sharon Weshler

    I run an International network of angel investors, helped over 20 Israeli start up companies raise early stage funding in the range of $200k to $1M; mainly in CleanTech, Green energy and Internet opportunities, creating a one of a kind deal flow. I"m also an expert on Social Media @ www.pery-weshler.com as well as a couple of other ventures I"m involved in, more info on my Linkedin profile found at http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonweshler, www.twitter.com/weshler and www.global-marketeam.com

  39. Jd Morris

    CONTACT: E-mail: jdm@RedHookCapital.com; Phone: (760) 415-2250; J David Morris (JD) focus on $5 million EBITA plus buyouts for 2q2006 as well as raising a new hedge fund. He is a General Partner of Red Hook Capitaland acting President of Catalina Capital Partners Inc. He has also served in leadership roles in strategy, corporate and business development for Lockheed Martin, MCI Corp., and other companies where he played key roles in the creation and development of several new ventures. . . .

  40. Francois Delepine

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