The TPG Growth Team
TPG Growth has a dedicated team of professionals globally with extensive investing and operating experience across a broad variety of industries and geographies. Additionally, TPG Growth is integrated within the broader TPG platform and utilizes the team of operations specialists, capital markets professionals, client service and fund administration teams, senior advisors and the global investment committee, representing over two hundred and fifty professionals worldwide.
-
Sir Victor Blank
Sir Victor began his career as a solicitor and was a Partner in Clifford-Turner (now Clifford Chance) from 1969 to 1981. He joined the investment banking group, Charterhouse, in 1981 and was Chairman and Chief Executive of Charterhouse until 1997. He served as a Director of the Royal Bank of Scotland from 1985-1993.
Sir Victor has chaired a number of major U.K. based companies - Trinity Mirror which is the UK’s largest newspaper quoted publishing group; GUS plc (which owned Experian, Burberry, Argos, Homebase, Lewis’s Stores of South Africa) and Lloyds Banking Group which under his chairmanship became the largest U.K. retail banking group.
Sir Victor is a British Business Ambassador, appointed under each of the last two administrations. He was a member of the Financial Reporting Council from 2002-2007, Chairman of the Industrial Development Advisory Board from 2000-2006 and the first external member of the Council of Oxford University. He has a wide range of other business, commercial and charitable interests.
-
Alfonso Cortina
Prior to joining TPG, Mr. Cortina de Alcocer was Chairman and CEO of Repsol YPF. Prior to the merger of Repsol and YPF, he was chairman and CEO of Repsol, S.A. from 1996 to 1999. From 1984 to 1996, he served as vice chairman, chairman, and then managing director of Portland Valderrivas, S.A., as well as chairman of the firm’s delegate commission. Mr. Cortina has had extensive experience in the banking industry, including executive positions at Banco de Vizcaya Group, Hispano Hipotecario, Sociedad de Crédito Hipotecario, S.A., and Banco Zaragozano. His professional activities have included chairmanship of the Asociación Hipotecaria Española and membership on the executive committee of the European Mortgage Federation. In 1995 he was honored by the Madrid Official Chamber of Commerce and Industry as “Businessman of the Year.”
Mr. Cortina holds degrees in advanced industrial engineering and in economics from ETSII and Madrid University, respectively.
-
Davide Croff
Most recently Mr. Croff served as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Rome. He had joined the company in 1989 as General Manager, Finance & International and was promoted to CEO in 1990 – a position he held until 2003. From 1979 to 1989, he held multiple positions of increasing responsibility in treasury and finance at Fiat S.p.A., he last position being the Senior Vice President of Finance. His career began in 1974 when he joined the Research Department of Banca d’Italia.
Mr. Croff’s current affiliations included his role as Chairman of Permasteelisa – Vittorio Veneto, as Chairman of Fondazione Levi – Venezia and as a Senior Advisor to TPG. His board memberships include Snam Rete Gas – Milano, and Venice Newport – Venice. He is also a Member of the Council for The United States and Italy.
Mr. Croff holds a First Class degree from Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, was an Assistant Professor at the Istituto di Politica Economica, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Padua (1971–1972) and completed post graduate work in Economics at Pembroke College, Oxford (1972–1974). He resides in Rome wife his wife and three children. He has been appointed as Cavaliere di Gran Croce, Order of merit of the Republic of Italy.
-
Clayton Daley
Mr. Daley is a Senior Advisor to TPG, focused in the area of Consumer Products. Most recently he served as Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Procter & Gamble, having retired in 2009 after ten years as CFO.
A graduate of Davidson College with an A.B. Economics and of Ohio State University with an MBA, Clayton joined Procter & Gamble in 1974 as the Cost Department Manager of the East River Plant in Green Bay, WI. Over the next 25 years he rose through the ranks of the financial function, ultimately being named SVP & Chief Financial Officer of the organization in 1998. Some of the many roles he held included: Comptroller of all U.S. Operations, Comptroller for all International Operations, and Vice President and Treasurer.
He serves on the Board of Directors for Nucor, Starwood Hotels and Resorts and Foster Wheeler AG and has been involved in many community and national boards including: Financial Executives Institute, Council of Financial Executives, Boy Scouts of America, and Cancer Family Care, Inc. “Institutional Investor” magazine named him the "Top CFO, Consumer Products" in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 , 2008 and 2009.
-
W. James Farrell
Mr. Farrell served as the Chief Executive Officer at Illinois Tool Works Inc., from 1995 to August 5, 2005. He served as the President from 1995 to 1996, and as the Executive Vice President from 1983 to 1994. Mr. Farrell served as the Director at Illinois Tool Works Inc. since 1995. He had 41 years of service with the company. Under his leadership, Illinois Tool Works Inc. bought more than 300 firms and paid more than $5.4 billion building the company into a $16 billion concern. Prior to that, Mr. Farrell served in the United States Army from 1965-1967. He has been a Director of 3M since 2006, Abbott Laboratories since January 20, 2006, Merrick Ventures, LLC, Allstate Insurance Company since 1999, and UAL Corporation since 2001. He is a former Director of Sears Roebuck & Co. and Kraft Foods.
Mr. Farrell is a Member of Advisory Board of Waud Capital Partners, L.L.C. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago. Mr. Farrell also serves as a Member of Executive Advisory Board of The Edgewater Funds. He serves as a Director of the United Way/Crusade of Mercy, the Big Shoulders Fund, and is a former Chairman of the Junior Achievement of Chicago. Mr. Farrell also serves as the Vice Chairman and Director of Economic Club of Chicago. He is a former Chairman and Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He served as the Chairman of Illinois Tool Works Inc., from May 5th 1996 to May 2006. Mr. Farrell serves as the Chairman and a Director on the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Science and Industry of Rush University. He serves as a Trustee of Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Northwestern University, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center. Mr. Farrell is the Chairman of the Capital Campaign of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He is a member of the Chicago Club, and serves as Vice Chairman of the Civic Committee and Chairman of the Commercial Club of Chicago. Mr. Farrell is active in numerous businesses, educational, and cultural organizations.
He received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Detroit in 1965.
-
Dave Goldberg
Mr. Goldberg is a Senior Advisor to TPG. Dave has been Chief Executive Officer of SurveyMonkey.com, LLC since April 2009. He has been a successful entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and technology and music industry executive. He has run, and successfully grown, several online consumer businesses.
Mr. Goldberg founded LAUNCH Media Inc. in 1994, which delivered music and music-related content online, and he led the company through its acquisition by Yahoo! in 2001. Following the sale, he served as Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo! Music, where he led the company's global music operations and built it into the Internet's most popular music destination. During his tenure, traffic increased from two million to twenty five million unique users per month, and four billion music videos were streamed in 2006 alone. In 2006, Dave was named one of Billboard Magazine's top power players in digital music. Recently Dave served as an Entrepreneur in Residence with Benchmark Capital where he evaluated investment opportunities for the firm and advised portfolio companies. Earlier in his career, Dave was Director of Marketing Strategy and New Business Development at Capitol Records. Dave also serves on the Board of Directors at Ancestry.com and Dashbox.
He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a BA degree in History and Government.
-
Nobuhiko Ito
Mr. Ito has been a Senior Advisor to TPG since January 2008. Prior to TPG, he worked at GE Japanfor 19 years, most recently as CEO of GE Japan overseeing $8 billion in revenue and 8,000 employees. During his career, Nobuhiko ran GE Japan's medical, insurance and leasing businesses.He is a graduate of University of Tokyo and has an MBA from Cornell.
-
Simon Jiang
Dr. Simon X. Jiang is the founder and Chairman of CyberCity International Limited (CCI) as well as Chairman of some CCI subsidiaries.
From 1992 to 98, he managed global investment in New York as a portfolio manager and Deputy Chief of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund Investment Management Service. His portfolio started in 1992 at less than $3 billion for Asia Pacific equity and grew to over $5 billion before his aggressive reduction just before Asian financial crisis. During the five years he was there, the Asia Pacific equity portfolio dramatically outperformed all relevant benchmarks most of the time. And the pension fund more than doubled from 9 b to over 20 b, with a slight positive contribution from the beneficiaries. From 1998, Dr. Jiang ran both CyberCity Group of Companies and later Vision Century Corp. (535.HK), which built science parks and did venture capital investments in China. At the same time, he was a board member of Zi Corporation, a Canadian information technology company listed on NASDAQ, and an advisory board member of Capital International Inc.
Dr. Jiang received his Bachelor's degree from Beijing University of Foreign Studies, Master from Australian National University and Doctoral in economics from Cambridge University. Today, he is still a Senior Associate at the Judge Management School of Cambridge University and a Trustee of Cambridge China Development Trust.
Dr. Jiang retired as an independent director of BOCIIM (a JV asset manager between Bank of China International and Merrill Lynch) and COSL (China Oilfield Services Limited, 2883.HK), while still on the board of SPG Land (337.HK), COSCO International (517.HK) and Leighton Asia. He is also on the board of China Foundation for Disabled Persons, a member of United Nations Investments Committee and of the national committee of the CPPCC (equivalent of the upper house in China).
-
David Kessler, M.D.
Dr. Kessler is the former Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration (1990-1997). He was appointed by President G. H. W. Bush and reappointed by President Clinton. He has also served as the Dean of the medical schools at Yale and the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Kessler has a wide range of experience in research, clinical medicine, education, administration, and the law. Dr. Kessler is a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF.
He is a 1973 magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst and received his JD from The University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the Law Review, in 1978, and his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1979.
He did his internship and residency in pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1986, he earned an Advanced Professional Certificate from the New York University Graduate School of Business Administration. Dr. Kessler's book, A Question of Intent (PublicAffairs, 2001), chronicles his tenure at the FDA and, in particular, the agency’s battle against tobacco. In addition, Dr. Kessler has published numerous articles in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and other major medical journals. His latest book, The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite (Rodale, 2009) was an instant New York Times bestseller. He serves on the board of various organizations including the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, where he is Chairman of the Board, Amherst College, and the National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the recipient of a number of awards and honors, including the American Cancer Society’s Medal of Honor, the March of Dimes Franklin Delano Roosevelt Leadership Award, and the National Hero Award of the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.
-
Uwe Krüeger
Dr. Uwe Krüger is a Director of STR Holdings Inc. in Enfield/Connecticut. He is the President of the Export Platform Cleantech Switzerland. He has been the CEO of Oerlikon Group from March 2007 to August 2009. Before joining Oerlikon, Dr. Uwe Krüger was Chairman of Turner International, a member of the HOCHTIEF group, and Senior Vice President of Turner Corporation, Dallas, USA, where he was responsible for strategic corporate development, new business areas and M&A projects.
Dr. Uwe Krüger studied physics, mathematics and economics at the University of Frankfurt and completed research internships at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig, Columbia University, New York, and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He began his professional career as a consultant with A.T. Kearney, working on projects in the automotive and high-tech industries. In 1997, he moved to HOCHTIEF group, where his main positions included Senior Vice President Corporate Development and CEO Central Eastern Europe. He is a board member of San-Diego based Zementis Inc. and Non-Executive Board member at Ontex S.A. in Zele/Belgium, a TPG portfolio company in Europe.
-
Gary Kusin
Gary Kusin is the former president and chief executive officer of FedEx Kinko’s, today operating as FedEx Office. Mr. Kusin was responsible for the strategic growth and transformation of Kinko’s and oversaw the ultimate sale to FedEx. Mr. Kusin then assisted FedEx in the transition of Kinko’s into FedEx Kinko’s. During that 2 year transition Gary served on the 9 person Strategic Management Committee for FedEx Corporation worldwide, reporting to Fred Smith, founder, chairman and CEO of FedEx Corporation.
Prior to joining Kinko’s in 2001, Mr. Kusin was chief executive officer of HQ Global Workplaces, the world leader in serviced offices, now a part of Regus. In 1995, Mr. Kusin co-founded Laura Mercier Cosmetics, a makeup line now sold through leading specialty and department stores worldwide, which he sold to Neiman-Marcus in 1998. Prior to co-founding Laura Mercier Cosmetics, since 1983 Mr. Kusin was president and co-founder of Babbage’s Inc., the leading consumer software specialty store chain in the US, which now operates under the name GameStop (NYSE: GME). Earlier in his career, he was vice president and general merchandise manager for the Sanger-Harris division of Federated Department Stores, today operating as Macy’s.
An Inc. magazine “Entrepreneur of Year” award winner, Mr. Kusin serves on the board of directors of Petco, Sabre Holdings, American Tire Distributors and Republic- a UK based men’s and women’s fashion apparel retailer.
Gary has been very involved in community activities throughout his career. A representative sample of positions held across time includes the St. Mark’s School of Texas Board of Trustees, Dallas Young Presidents’ Organization Chairman, Dallas Citizen’s Council board of directors, the Southwestern Medical School Foundation and as Chairman of the Advisory Council for the University of Texas McComb’s School of Business.
He earned a BA from the University of Texas at Austin and a MBA from the Harvard Business School and lives in Dallas with his wife Karleen.
-
Taek Kwon
Prior to joining TPG Growth in March of 2006, Mr. Kwon spent over ten years in various senior executive roles at leading online media and technology companies. He served as a founding technology executive at CommerceBid (sold to Commerce One), founding VP of Engineering and Operations at Hotwire (sold to Interactive Corp./Expedia), Executive Vice President of Product and Technology at Citysearch (an Interactive Corp. company), and turnaround CEO at Friendster.
Mr. Kwon was a member of the National Engineering Honor Society, a member of the lightweight football and wrestling teams at Cornell University, and runner-up in the World DJ Championships.
Taek is a board member of EARN.
- B.S., Cornell University
-
Blair LaCorte
Prior to joining TPG Growth in 2006, Mr. LaCorte was an Executive Fellow at the Center for Digital Strategies. Previously he was the Executive Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at Savi Technology. Mr. LaCorte founded Savi's Network Services Business and created the Smart and Secure Trade Lanes (SST) initiative.
Prior to Savi, Mr. LaCorte was VerticalNet's Senior Vice President of Strategy and E-commerce. He was part of the team that took the company public in what was the most successful IPO in 1999. He was also an EIR at Internet Capital Group and prior to that he was President of CADIS.
Mr. LaCorte held various executive positions at AutoDesk and founded and became General Manager of both the GIS and Data Management & Publishing Divisions.
Mr. LaCorte was Manager of Worldwide Strategy and Market Planning for Sun Microsystems, a Senior Consultant at Gemini consulting specializing in process engineering in the Energy, Chemical and Transportation segments and held several operational and financial positions at General Electric. Mr. LaCorte began his career in the airline industry where he helped to found Boston Air Taxi, which pioneered the use of helicopters in traffic reporting. Blair has been honored with numerous industry awards, including being named "Top Ten Business Marketers" by Business Marketing and Advertising Age.
Blair is a board member of XOJet, Starcite, CourTrax, and the Graduate Business Foundation Board at Dartmouth College.
- B.A., University of Maine
- FMP degree in Finance from General Electric
- M.B.A., Tuck School at Dartmouth College
-
David Levison
Mr. Levison is the Founder, CEO, and Director of CardioDx. Prior to launching CardioDx, David was a Venture Partner at TPG Ventures and was the CEO of XDx. Previously, he was the founder, President and CEO of iScribe (which was sold to AdvancePCS-now Caremark in December, 2001). Prior to iScribe, David was President of Oncology Therapeutics Network (sold to Bristol-Myers Squibb in 1996). David also served as CFO of OTN’s parent company, Axion, from 1990 to 1993. Prior to Axion, he was with Cole Gilburne Fund, an early stage, technology focused venture capital firm.
He received his MBA from Stanford University and BS from Williams College.
-
Sharad Mansukani, MD
Dr. Mansukani, a leading healthcare business and reimbursement strategist, is an authority on the health insurance, hospital, PBM and pharmaceutical industries, in addition to Medicaid and Medicare. Previously, Dr. Mansukani served as senior advisor to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), where he advised on design and implementation of the Medicare prescription drug benefit, Medicare Part B reform, and Medicare Advantage policy. As a member of the Bush Administration’s Medicare Reform Executive Committee, he also assisted with drafting of the Medicare Modernization Act and the series of complex regulations and guidelines governing Medicare Part D, Medicare Advantage, electronic prescribing, and disease management. Dr. Mansukani’s influential work at CMS also included improving collaboration between Medicare, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Prior to CMS, Dr. Mansukani was senior vice president and chief medical officer at Health Partners, a 150,000 member Medicaid and Medicare health plan owned by the Philadelphia-area medical schools. Dr. Mansukani is on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University Schools of Medicine, and frequently lectures at the Wharton School of Business. A popular speaker at healthcare conferences, Dr. Mansukani serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Medical Quality, Managed Care, and Biotechnology Healthcare. He completed a residency and fellowship in ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a fellowship in quality management and managed care at the Wharton School of Business. A graduate of the managed care executive program at the Kellogg School of Business, Dr. Mansukani is board certified in medical management by the American College of Physician Executives.
-
John McAdam
Dr. McAdam is a Senior Advisor to TPG Capital. He graduated from Manchester University with a first class honours degree in chemical physics and, after completing his doctorate, was awarded a research fellowship.
In 1974 he joined Unilever as a management trainee and held a variety of managerial positions within Birds Eye Foods before joining the Board of Unilever’s flavours and fragrance business, PPF International, as Technical Director. In 1987, he joined the Board of Quest International as Senior Vice President in charge of Manufacturing, Logistics and Procurement before returning to Birds Eye Walls, where he assumed Board responsibility for Manufacturing, Research and Development. In 1993 he was appointed Chairman of Unichema International and, following ICI’s acquisition of the Unilever Specialty Chemical businesses in 1997, became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Quest and a member of the ICI Executive Management Team. In January 1998 he was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive of ICI Paints and the following year he was elected to the Board of ICI with additional responsibility for Research, Development and Technology and ICI’s activities in Asia. He was appointed Chief Executive of ICI plc in 2003. In 2008, he retired as Chief Executive of ICI following its sale to Akzo Nobel and was appointed Chairman of Rentokil Initial plc and Chairman of United Utilities plc. John McAdam is also a senior independent Non-Executive Director of J Sainsbury plc, and a Non-Executive Director of Rolls Royce plc and Sara Lee Inc.
-
Adam Metz
Mr. Metz was the Chief Executive Officer of General Growth Properties, Inc. During his tenure, GGP owned and managed more than 200 regional shopping malls in 43 states. The Company's portfolio totaled approximately 200 million square feet of retail space and more than 24,000 retail stores nationwide. The Company's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GGP.
Prior to joining GGP, Mr. Metz held numerous executive positions such as president, chief financial officer and director of acquisitions for Urban Shopping Centers, Inc., a publicly-traded REIT that owned a portfolio of high-performing malls, where he worked from 1993 until its sale in 2000. Before joining Urban, he held positions in the capital markets group of JMB Realty and in the commercial real estate lending group at The First National Bank of Chicago.
-
Afshin Mohebbi
Mr. Mohebbi was president and chief operating officer of Qwest Communications International Inc., a Fortune 100 company with revenues in excess of $19B and 25 million customers worldwide. He had operational responsibilities for core wireline, international, and yellow pages businesses of the company. He joined Qwest in 1999 and was co-chairman of the company's merger integration with Regional Bell Operating Company USWEST.
Previously, He was president and managing director of United Kingdom Markets for British Telecom and a member of the company's management board. Earlier, Mohebbi was president and managing director of BT's Business Division, with responsibility for BT's business customers in addition to its yellow pages (Yell), managed outsourcing services (Synchordia), and its Internet subsidiaries. He joined BT in 1997. Mohebbi began his career in 1983 with Pacific Bell Telephone Company in California, where he held a number of assignments in engineering, operations, sales, and marketing. His last position with Pacific Bell was vice president-business markets. In 1997, he accepted the position of vice president-marketing for SBC Communications following its acquisition of Pacific Bell. He was selected by World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland as one of Global Leaders of Tomorrow in year 2000. Past board of director memberships include Hanaro Telecom, Bearingpoint Inc, where he was chairman of the compensation committee, Qwest Cyber.Solutions LLP, and Cellnet.
Mr. Mohebbi holds an MBA from University of California, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California Irvine.
-
Sam Nakane
Mr. Shigeru "Sam" Nakane worked at IBM, from 1971 through 1992, in Japan, Asia Pacific HQ, Poughkeepsie, Whiteplains, and Armonk. He initially started as an operating system engineer and then served various executive management positions in Marketing, Sales, Services, and Business Plan.
Moving to SAP in 1993, he launched SAP business in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and China as regional CEO for SAP North East Asia. Admitted as a managing partner at PwC in 2000, he lead eBusiness line with incubation center for Japan and B2E initiative for Asia Pacific.
In 2001, he moved to i2 Technologies as CEO for Japan and in 2002, he was promoted to COO, President of Global Operation, i2 Technologies Inc. in Dallas, Texas. He lived in Irving Texas from 2002 to early 2004 to execute his COO mission to turnaround i2 Technologies Inc. Returning to Japan in 2004, he was named turnaround CEO for a telco owned by TEPCO and 9 other power utility companies and top 3 trading companies of Japan. Having made record success in PoweredCom turnaround, in 2006, he started his own firm, UWiN Corporation, as Founder & CEO, specialized turnaround, restructuring, and M&A advisory.
He now also serves as CEO for a SHARP company, iDeep Solutions, founded September, 2010 and TUS board of directors as an external director. He is a member of "Keizai Doyukai" (Japan Association of Corporate Executives), IMA, International Management Association, He lectures at JMA, Japan Management Association, annually on Strategic Management for newly appointed board of directors in Japan.
He is a graduate of Tokyo University of Science (TUS), holds BA EE. He enjoys driving high performance cars, trap shooting, and golfing.
-
Glenn Neland
Mr. Neland has over 30 years experience in the computer industry. He has served in a variety of functions including supply chain, procurement, manufacturing and product development for products such as laser printers, notebook computers, minicomputers, servers and storage systems.
He served for almost 20 years with Texas Instruments where he eventually served as the Vice President and General Manager for both the TI Printers Business as well as the TI Notebook Business. In 1997 Glenn joined Dell and soon took on the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer. Reporting to the CEO Glenn also lead Dell’s Customer Experience Efforts as well as the Operations Council which was chartered to identify and implement key cost reduction initiative across product development, the supply chain, manufacturing facilities and logistics operations.
He retired from Dell in March 2007. He now serves as an advisor to the Texas Pacific Group and provides input and guidance to a number of their portfolio companies. Glenn is also a member of the Board for the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago and Lifeworks which is a non-profit organization that provides services to homeless teenagers in Central Texas.
-
Ed Norton
Mr. Norton served as The Nature Conservancy’s Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Region. Based in Bali, he worked on marine and terrestrial biodiversity conservation projects across the region. He also served as Senior Advisor to the USAID Orangutan Conservation Services Project in Indonesia. In 2005, he was the Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Ecology, Graduate School of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Previously, he was the Senior Advisor to The Nature Conservancy’s China Program. In that role, he helped to create The Conservancy’s Yunnan Great Rivers Project. Over the course of his career he also served as Vice President for Law and Public Policy of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, was the founding President of the Grand Canyon Trust, the founding Chairman of the Rails-To-Trails Conservancy and one of the founders and leaders of the Vietnam Veterans Reconciliation Project. Additionally, he was special counsel, Deputy Executive Director and Director of Membership and Development for The Wilderness Society. In his early career, he was a federal prosecutor with the US Attorney in Maryland, Assistant Attorney General of Maryland, and a law clerk to Judge Frank A. Kaufman of the United States District Court for Maryland.
He graduated with a BA in European History from Washington & Lee University and attended Columbia University’s Russian Institute as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar. He served in the US Marine Corps and was discharged with the rank of captain. Following his military service, he received his JD from Harvard Law School. Currently he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Grand Canyon Trust, The Wyss Foundation, and is the Founding Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Conservation Lands Foundation.
-
Carl F. Pascarella
Mr. Pascarella recently retired as President & Chief Executive Officer of Visa U.S.A. Inc., after twelve years of service. Before assuming that position, he was President & CEO of Visa Asia Pacific Limited Region and Director of the Asia Pacific Regional Board.
Before joining Visa, Mr. Pascarella was Vice President, International Division at Crocker National Bank and Vice President, Metropolitan Banking at Bankers Trust Company. His experience also included commercial banking, corporate banking, credit review and policy, and DeNovo banking. Mr. Pascarella was also head of the California International Banking and Trade Finance organization for Crocker National Bank.
Carl Pascarella received a Master of Science in Management from Stanford Sloan Program at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Buffalo.
-
Watanan Petersik
Ms. Petersik was in the investment banking industry in Asia from 1985 to 2006, working with clients in Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, China and Japan. Watanan started out her career at Bankers Trust/TISCO inThailand, before moving on to run research and broking operations for Jardine Fleming Thanakom and S.G. Warburg. She moved to Hong Kong to set up Warburg's Asian equity capital markets desk in 1994, and moved to Goldman Sachs in 1996 in investment banking. She retired in 2006 as Chief of Staff for Goldman Sachs Asia ex-Japan.
Watanan studied at Bryn Mawr College. She currently sits on the boards of CIMBThai Bank in Thailand, CIMB Group in Malaysia, and the Lien Centre for Social Innovation at Singapore Management University. She is a Senior Moderator for the Aspen Institute's Global Leadership Network.
-
William K. Reilly
Mr. Reilly served as the first Payne Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1993-1994), Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1989-1993), president of the World Wildlife Fund (1985-1989), president of The Conservation Foundation (1973-1989), and director of the Rockefeller Task Force on Land Use and Urban Growth from (1972-1973). He was head of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Earth Summit at Rio in 1992. In May 2010, Reilly was appointed by President Obama to co-chair the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.
Mr. Reilly is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the World Wildlife Fund, Chairman of the Board of the ClimateWorks Foundation, Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, and Chairman of the Board of the Global Water Challenge. He is a Director of the Packard Foundation and the National Geographic Society. He also serves on the Board of Directors of DuPont, ConocoPhillips, Royal Caribbean International and Energy Future Holdings, for which he serves as Chairman of the Sustainable Energy Advisory Board. In 2007 Mr. Reilly was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds a B.A. degree from Yale, J.D. from Harvard and M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia University.
-
Kevin Rollins
Prior to joining TPG as a senior advisor, Mr. Rollins was President of Dell Americas 1996-1998, Vice Chairman and President of Dell 1998-2004 and CEO of Dell 2004-2007. Before his time at Dell, Mr. Rollins was a partner and director at Bain & Company, where he advised Dell for several years before joining the company. Mr. Rollins, who joined Bain in 1984, specialized in strategies and management for high-technology and consumer-products clients.
He earned his MBA and BA degrees from Brigham Young University, and currently co-chairs BYU’s President’s Leadership Council and is a member of the Marriott School’s National Advisory Council. Mr. Rollins is Chairman of the Board of The American Enterprise Institute and also serves on the board of Avaya, Inc., as well as Deseret Management Corporation.
-
Leonard D. Schaeffer
Mr. Schaeffer is the founding Chairman and CEO of WellPoint, the nation’s largest, publicly-traded, health benefits company. WellPoint serves the health care needs of over 33 million medical members and has annualized revenues of over $57 billion. He is currently Chairman of SCA and a Senior Advisor to TPG Capital, a private equity firm.
Previously, Schaeffer was President and CEO of Group Health, Inc. of Minnesota, a staff model HMO. Schaeffer was also EVP and COO of the Student Loan Marketing Association, the national secondary market for student loans and earlier was a Vice President of Citibank and a consultant specializing in design and installation of large scale financial and management information systems. In the federal government, he served as Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (now CMS) and was responsible for the U.S. Medicare and Medicaid programs. He was also the Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget of the Department of Health and Human Services. Previously, Schaeffer was Director of the Bureau of the Budget for the State of Illinois and also served as Chairman of the Illinois Capital Development Board and as Deputy Director for Management, Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities.
Schaeffer is the Judge Robert Maclay Widney Chair and Professor at the University of Southern California. He is active on the boards of numerous businesses, philanthropic and professional organizations. A native of Evanston, Illinois, he is a graduate of Princeton University. Schaeffer and his wife, the former Pamela Sidford, have two children.
-
Steve Schwarzwaelder
Mr. Schwarzwaelder served an illustrious 27 year career at McKinsey & Company. Steve retired from McKinsey in 2007 as Director, an elected member of McKinsey's Shareholders Council (2000-2006), and as an appointed member of the Managing Director's 5-person Advisory Committee, the Director Review Committee, the Chair of the External Candidate Election Committee, and a member of the Firm's 8-person Knowledge Committee. During his last 5 years with McKinsey, Steve had oversight responsibility for McKinsey's global functional practices (Strategy, Operations, Corporate Finance, Marketing & Sales, Organization, and Business Technology), Knowledge Operations, and Research & Information Services.
Before joining McKinsey, Steve received a liberal arts degree with a major in Economics from Denison University, where he graduated with Highest Distinction and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Following graduation in 1977, he moved to Chicago to work for Inland Steel in both the sales and finance areas. While working, Steve completed his M.B.A. program at the University of Chicago and graduated with honors in 1980.
-
Richard Seow
Mr. Seow is the former Chairman of Singapore Exchange (“SGX”) listed Parkway Holdings Limited (“Parkway”), a leader in private Asian healthcare services. He partnered with TPG to invest in Parkway in 2005 and stepped down from the Board with TPG’s exit from the investment in 2010.
At the inception of the Parkway investment the company had a market capitalization of S$ 1.2 billion with a heavy concentration of revenue and assets in Singapore. Over the course of the following 5 years, Parkway expanded its presence in Asia to include operations and developments in Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, India, China & the UAE. It also formed and listed the region’s leading healthcare REIT (PLife REIT). New clinical programs in Oncology and Liver Transplantation were established and have become the benchmark programs in Asian private healthcare. At the time of his departure from the Company, the market capitalization of Parkway’s listed companies stood at S$ 5.3 billion
Prior to his involvement with Parkway in 2005, Richard worked in Investment Banking for 16 years. He headed up the South East Asian Investment Banking franchise for Citigroup based in Singapore where he also established the firm’s Asian Technology Investment Banking Group.
Before joining Citigroup, from 1994 to 1999, Richard was with Goldman Sachs where he was Chief Operating Officer for Asian Investment Banking and Head of Investment Banking Services for Singapore and Malaysia. From 1992 to 1994, he was based in Hong Kong working in J.P. Morgan’s Financial Advisory Mergers & Acquisitions Group. During the period 1988 to 1992 Richard was with Security Pacific Bank with postings in Los Angeles and Hong Kong.
His directorships and appointments past and present have included: Anglo Chinese School Board of Governors, Republic Polytechnic, Singapore Sports Council, Singapore’s Fathers Action Network, Hup Soon Global, Lee Hing Devleopment, Yuchai International, SEMAC Corporation, Singapore Government Parliamentary Committee for Finance and Trade & Industry, and Singapore Boys’ Home.
Richard received his commission from the Singapore Armed Forces in 1984, where he was a Sword of Honour winner. He completed his undergraduate education with a BS Economics from the University of Oregon and received his MBA from the University of Southern California.
-
Dan F. Smith
Mr. Smith was named Director and Chairman of Valerus when TPG acquired it in Dec of 2009. He was also served as the director and Chairman of the Kraton board of directors on February 4, 2008. He began his career with ARCO (Atlantic Richfield Company) in 1968 as an engineer. He was elected President of Lyondell Chemical Company in August 1994, Chief Executive Officer in December 1996 and Chairman of the Board of Directors in May 2007. Mr. Smith retired in December 2007 as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lyondell Chemical Company following the acquisition of Lyondell by Basell. Mr. Smith also served as Chief Executive Officer of Equistar Chemicals, LP from December 1997 through December 2007 and as Chief Executive Officer of Millennium Chemicals Inc. from November 2004 until December 2007. Equistar and Millennium are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Lyondell.
Mr. Smith currently serves on the Board of Directors of Cooper Industries, Inc. He also serves as a member of the College of Engineering Advisory Council at Lamar University and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Lamar University Foundation. Mr. Smith is a graduate of Lamar University with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering.
-
Mike Stone
Mr. Stone is Founder and retired Chairman of J.H. Whitney Investment Management LLC, retired Senior Partner of J.H. Whitney & Co., LLC, and Founder and Managing Member of Westwind Investors, LP. J.H. Whitney & Co., LLC, where Mr. Stone served as President from 2001 through 2005, is a middle-market private equity firm. Westwind Investors, LP. is a family office. Mr. Stone joined J.H. Whitney & Co., LLC in 1989 and founded all of their hedge fund activities. Prior to that, he was a management consultant with Bain & Company. He is a board member of The San Diego Museum of Art, Rady School of Business at UCSD, The Gillespie School, and the Center on Business and Poverty, as well as several private companies. Mr. Stone graduated with a B.A., Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, from Duke University and has an M.B.A from the Harvard Business School.
-
Tsuneo Takahashi
Mr. Takahashi has 20 years experience in Intel and Motorola/Freescale. By understanding global company, experienced to change company culture for efficiency by implementing performance management, diversity and speed of action. Managed 500HCs size of company as president, including R&D, sales & marketing and back office. Very good relationship with Japanese industry executives in ICT, Auto, communication carrier, consumer electronics, IHV/ISV and industrial media. Good at big seminar, IR speech and media interview. 8 years executive position, 12 years sales and marketing and 6 years R&D experience. Through 26 years experience in high technology industry, good knowledge about ICT, CE, Auto and general embedded applications, software in addition to semiconductor.
Established TSU Co.Ltd in 2010, and started to serve as advisor to Ryoyo, Ricoh Corp, BTS and TPG capital. Through 2004 to 2009, Served at Freescale Corp as Senior vice president and Japan GM. In 2009, Restructured company by reducing 30% of HCs including shut down Sendai R&D facility and shrink Tokyo office to align with company transformation strategy, even though achieved record high revenue in 2008 as result of growth strategy execution since 2004, closed strategic deal with Toyota, Honda, Toshiba, Sony, Sharp, NEC and Fujitsu. In 2005, started FTF (Freescale Technology Forum) -Japan. In 2004, integrated Metrowerks into Freescale Japan. Through 1989 to 2004, served as Intel Japan director. Experienced sales and marketing in PC, Server/ workstation, communication infrastructure, consumer electronics and embedded. Closed strategic deal such as NEC/Fujitsu/Toshiba/Sony PC, Sony/Toshiba HDD recorder, NTTdocomo base station and NTT FTTH Home Gateway. In 1998, started IDF -Japan. Through 1983 to 1989, served as Fuji Xerox and Seiko instruments research and development engineer for computer, communication and graphics applications. Held several patents for computer and graphics.
Graduated Musashi Institute of Technology, M.S. degree of electronics communication engineering in 1983. The first class and premium class Information processing (software development & project management) certification by MITI (government), 1985, 1986. He is married with 2 sons and currently lives in Nihonbashi Tokyo.
-
Charles Ward
Mr. Ward joined TPG Capital in 2010 as a senior advisor with a mandate to help identify and execute clean technology and energy investments. Charles was formerly with Farallon Capital Management LLC, where he was responsible for private and public investments in technology hardware and clean technology businesses worldwide. Charles worked for Farallon’s Value Equity Group for six years in San Francisco.
Prior to joining Farallon’s Equities Group, Charles has also held a number of senior operating positions at Flextronics, Hyundai and General Electric Corporation.
He earned a BA from the University of Vermont where he studied economics as well as Mandarin Chinese. Charles lives in San Francisco with his wife Nina and three children.
-
Cuneyd Zapsu
Mr. Zapsu worked in family-owned Azizler Holding’s various companies as GM, CEO, Board Member and Chairman 1976 – 2003. Being co-founder of the Justice and Development Party, he also served as the Party’s Board Member and as the Information Coordinator to Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan between 2001 – 2008.
Back to business after his resignation from AK Party duties in 2008 with his Cuneyd Zapsu Consultancy INC. through which he serves various companies including TPG along with his hazelnut processing company-Balsu A.S- which he founded in 1979. Besides his membership to the World Economic Forum (WEF) since 1994, he is also a Board Member of the Turkish American Business Council (TAIK) since 1994. Memberships like All Food Importers Association (TUGIDER), Istanbul Chamber of Industry (ISO), Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen Association (TUSIAD), German-Turkish Chamber of Industry and Trade (AHK) and International Investors Association(YASED)… Since 2000, he is High Advisory Board Member of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) and Founder and Member of the Supervisory Committee of the Young Lives Foundation (GHV) since 2008. President of the Istanbul Exporters Association 1987 – 2001, Member of the Executive Committee of INC, Reus, Spain 1996 – until now (President between 2002 – 2007). Among the awards Zapsu has received are The Federal Order of Merit from the President of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2007 for his services in the development of the relations between Turkey and Germany, Best Exporters of Turkey annual Gold Medals rewards from the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, Istanbul Chamber of Industry and Ministry of Foreign Trade between the years 1986 – 1997. Cuneyd Zapsu is married and has three daughters.
His primary education in Munich, German High School (Istanbul), Istanbul University and Ludwig Maximillian University Munich (B.A in Business Administration).
-
William E. McGlashan, Jr
Mr. McGlashan is a founder and the Managing Partner of TPG Growth, and a member of TPG’s leadership committees. Prior to joining TPG in 2004, he was the Chairman and CEO of Critical Path Inc. He joined Critical Path Inc. in April of 2001 to undertake a major financial and operational restructuring of the company. Previously, Mr. McGlashan co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Vectis Group, a venture corporation that capitalized and built companies in emerging markets, in partnership with leading U.S. technology businesses. Mr. McGlashan co-founded and served as President of Pharmanex, Inc., a leading phyto-pharmaceutical and dietary supplement company with annual global sales of approximately $1 billion. Prior to Pharmanex, Inc., Mr. McGlashan was a senior associate with Bain Capital, LLC and Information Partners. He is a board member of AgraQuest, Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc., Schiff Nutrition International, Inc., SuccessFactors, Survey Monkey and XOJET. Mr. McGlashan graduated with a B.A., with honors, from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. As part of his philanthropic and not-for-profit activities, he serves on the Advisory Council for the Yale School of Management, the boards of Endeavor Global and Common Sense Media. He is an active member of Young Presidents' Organization in the San Francisco Barbary Coast chapter and the World Economic Forum.
- B.A., Yale University with Honors
- M.B.A., Stanford University Graduate School of Business
-
Sing Wang
Mr. Wang is a Partner of TPG, Co-Chairman of TPG Greater China and Head of TPG Growth North Asia.
Prior to joining TPG in 2006, Mr. Wang was Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of TOM Group Limited. Previously, he spent seven years at Goldman Sachs in both New York and Hong Kong in various positions including Executive Director / Head of China High Technology in Hong Kong. He was a founding member of the firm's Asian private equity team and headed their China Investment Projects. Before Goldman Sachs, he was a Manager at HSBC Private Equity in Hong Kong and a Strategic Consultant with McKinsey & Co., in Chicago, U.S.A. Mr. Wang is one of Greater China's most experienced private equity investors with broad experience in investment banking, equity capital markets and technology. Mr. Wang was selected by Cai Jing Shi Bao as one of the "Top 10 China IT Business People" in 2003. Subsequently, he won the "Executive Award" in the 2004 DHL/SCMP Hong Kong Business Award, and also became a member of the "Young Global Leaders" under the World Economic Forum. With the award of "China Media People 2005" and "China's Venture Capital Award for Outstanding Investor (1998-2008)", Mr. Wang's achievement is further recognized.
Mr. Wang is currently a Listing Committee Member of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited; director of MI Energy, China Renewable Energy, China Vogue Casualwear and Yunnan Red. In addition, Mr. Wang is the Chairman of Amerinvest Group of Companies; Standing Committee Member of the 10th Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference ("CPPCC"); Chairman of the Industry Policy Committee ("IPC") of the China Venture Capital and Private Equity Association ("CVCA") and also holds several business and community appointments.
Mr. Wang holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Yunnan University; a Master of Science in Forestry and its Relation to Land Use; and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a Master of Arts from Oxford University.
- B.S., Yunnan University
- B.A., M.A., and M.S., Oxford University
-
Varun Kapur
Prior to joining TPG Growth in 2007, Mr. Kapur was Managing Director and Co-head for Asian investments at Intel Capital. His responsibilities spanned the investment efforts of the firm in India, Japan, Southeast Asia and Australia. In the six years he spent at Intel Capital he was responsible for the deployment of over $ 500MM in investments in the region and successful exits of portfolio companies in several exchanges around the region including Mumbai Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Singapore Stock Exchange, HoChi Minh Stock Exchange and Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Previously he was a Director of Direct Investments at AIG Investment Corporation in Mumbai and Hong Kong respectively.
Varun is a board member of Greenko Mauritius and AGS.
- B.Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
- PGDM, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
-
Scott Gilbertson
Mr. Gilbertson leads the Operating group at TPG Growth. The group is responsible for driving shareholder value creation by contributing to the investment process and by actively engaging with portfolio companies to drive revenue growth, operational effectiveness, and profit enhancement. Scott's sectors of expertise are Consumer, Retail and eCommerce.
Prior to joining TPG Growth in 2007, Mr. Gilbertson was Senior Vice President of Merchandising (Chief Merchant) at Under Armour Performance Apparel and CEO of Ludi Labs, Inc. Formerly, he was a member of the TPG Ops group from 1998 to 2003, during which, he held a number of operating positions within the TPG portfolio including interim COO of Bally International and the three distinct positions of President eCommerce, interim CEO and ultimately COO of J.Crew Group. From 1991 to 1998, Scott was at The Boston Consulting Group where he led case work in the automotive, wine and spirits, financial services and apparel industries.
Scott is a board member of David's Bridal, Lilliput Kidswear, Sisulan, and 3 Day Blinds. He is engaged with and serves as an official observer to the Board of Directors at Adknowledge, Become.com, Hilex Poly, Kosta Browne Winery, and Petbarn.
- B.A., Claremont McKenna College
- M.B.A., J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management
-
Ransom A. Langford
Prior to joining TPG Growth in 2009, Ransom was a Managing Director at J.H. Whitney & Co. from 2000 to 2009. Mr. Langford served on numerous boards of directors of Whitney portfolio companies and was a member of the firm's Investment Committee. Mr. Langford was responsible for identifying and investigating investments in industrial and business services industries and was Co-Head of the firm's healthcare services investments.
Prior to Whitney, Mr. Langford was a member of the investment team at Los Angeles-based Brentwood Associates. During his four years at Brentwood Associates, Mr. Langford participated in all aspects of sourcing, conducting due diligence, negotiating and closing private equity transactions principally in business services and industrial industries.
Prior to Brentwood Associates, Mr. Langford was an analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at New York-based investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
Ransom is a board member of Hilex Poly, VPSI, Inc. and Microgame.
- B.A with Highest Distinction from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, graduated Cum Laude and a Morehead Scholar
- M.B.A., The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania with Honors
-
Matthew T. Hobart
Prior to joining TPG Growth in 2004, Matthew Hobart was the Vice President of Corporate Development for Critical Path, where he was part of a turnaround team that led Critical Path through a major financial and operational restructuring. Previously, Mr. Hobart co-founded and served as a Managing Director of Vectis Group, a venture corporation that capitalized and built companies globally, in partnership with leading U.S. technology businesses. Prior to Vectis Group, Mr. Hobart made private equity investments in the US and Europe for the $2.2 billion Morgan Stanley Capital Partners III L.P. and helped raise and invest the $350 million Morgan Stanley Global Emerging Markets Fund.
Matt is a board member of The Vincraft Group, 3 Day Blinds, Inc., Schiff Nutrition International, and Petbarn.
- B.A., Miami University with Honors
- M.B.A., Stanford University Graduate School of Business
-
Jing Huang
Mr. Huang is a Partner of TPG Growth and RMB Funds, based in Shanghai, China. Prior to joining TPG in August 2011, he was Managing Director at Bain Capital LLC based in China. Previously, Mr. Huang was Managing Director China at SOFTBANK Asia Infrastructure Fund (SAIF). Prior to SAIF, Mr. Huang was Partner at SUNeVision Ventures and Senior Manager of Strategic Investment at Intel Capital. Before his investment career, Mr. Huang worked as Director of Research Operations at GartnerGroup, Co-founder/Vice President of Marketing at Mtone Wireless and Lecturer at Communication University of China. Mr. Huang also serves as a Deputy Chairman of Shanghai Private Equity Association (SHPEA) and a Governor of China Venture Capital Association (CVCA). Mr. Huang received an M.B.A from Harvard Business School, an M.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. from Beijing Foreign Studies University.
- B.A., Beijing Foreign Studies University
- M.A., Stanford University
- M.B.A, Harvard Business School
-
Stephen Law
Prior to joining TPG Growth in July 2006, Stephen Law was a director of Morningside, where he was responsible for a portfolio of private equity investments. Stephen served as a director for The9 Limited, one of the top three online game operators in China. He was the Chief Financial Officer of Media Partners International Holdings Inc., one of the top three outdoor advertising operators in China and he led its later sale to JC Decaux. Stephen was a founding director of an advertising agency which was subsequently merged with WPP Group. Stephen also founded and consolidated the Communication Central Group, the largest independent interactive marketing agency in China, which was sold to Publicis.
Prior to Morningside, Mr. Law focused in corporate finance and development for Wheelock and Wharf Groups to develop various businesses in China and Hong Kong. Prior to working for Wheelock, Stephen served as regional financial controller for a number of multinationals.
He started his career with a big eight accounting firm in the United Kingdom. Stephen is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Mr. Law has also obtained various awards in the fields of Investor Relations and Corporate Governance. He is a council member of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the chairman of the Corporate Governance Committee and the deputy chairman of the Corporate Finance Committee.
Stephen is a board member of MI Energy and Yunnan Red.
- B.S., University of Birmingham
- M.B.A., University of Hull, United Kingdom
-
Keith Nilsson
Prior to joining TPG Growth, Nilsson was Managing Partner of Xplorer Capital, a growth equity investment firm focused on internet and digital media opportunities in the Emerging Markets. Prior to Xplorer, Nilsson spent 11 years at Yahoo! in various executive roles. First as head of the Corporate Development M&A efforts, Nilsson led 40+ investments and acquisitions globally, including Overture and Alibaba. Nilsson was also Senior Vice President of the Global Initiatives Group and Yahoo!'s Emerging Markets Group. Through organic expansion, investments and acquisitions, Nilsson grew the Yahoo! Emerging Markets organization to a team of 1,100 across 20 countries and four continents. Prior to Yahoo!, Nilsson worked in technology at Intel Corporation and investment banking with Alex Brown and Bankers Trust. Nilsson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Young President’s Organization. Nilsson also serves on the board of various start-up organizations, and the non-profit JDRF.
- B.A., University of California, Davis
- M.B.A., Columbia Business School
- M.I.A, Columbia University – School of International Affairs
-
C.K. Tsang
Prior to joining TPG Growth in 2007, Mr. Tsang was with the Australian Capital Equity (ACE) since 2000 both in its London and Beijing offices. He was ACE's Managing Director of China who oversaw the group's investment activities in the region. During his time at ACE, Mr. Tsang also served as the Managing Director of the WesTrac China dealership. Mr. Tsang led the growth of this business from a start-up stage through to profitable growth with present staff of about 1,000. Under his leadership, WesTrac China received the Australian Chamber of Commerce's Business Excellence Award in the Greater China region and the company was also recognized as having The Best Volunteer Group by China Communist Youth League. Mr. Tsang also served as Chairman of the Caterpillar China Dealers' Association. Before joining ACE, Mr. Tsang worked for The Walt Disney Company from 1994 to 2000. During that time, Mr. Tsang was the Director of Business Planning and Development of Asia-Pacific for Walt Disney Imagineering, the theme park and real estate division of Disney, where he initiated and shepherded the Hong Kong Disneyland deal to its completion. Prior to his time at Disney, Mr. Tsang worked at The Boston Consulting Group in Asia-Pacific and at Citibank in the U.S.
Mr. Tsang is an active member and the Treasurer of the China Venture Capital Association and also the inaugural President of its Young Venture Capitalist Club. He also served on numerous advisory and board roles in various start-ups, and was also an honorary member of the Board of Governors of Beijing Volunteer Association.
CK is a board member of ShangPharma.
- B.S., Cornell University
- M.B.A., Northwestern University
-
Bill Schwartz
Prior to joining TPG in 2011, Mr. Schwartz was EVP, TBM Consulting Group from 1991 to 2011 responsible for North American Consulting and leading lean transformations for global clients including Dell Computer, Carlisle Companies, MEMC, Simmons and Freescale Semiconductor. Bill worked across a variety of industries including Consumer Products, Construction Materials, Industrial Products, Food & Beverage, Medical Device and Biotech, helping companies improve manufacturing operations, supply chain performance and strategy implementation. During his tenure with TBM, he founded and was President of TBM Holdings sponsoring the acquisition of three companies in the Material Handling industry. Formerly, Bill was with Howell Management Corporation and was Vice President, Sales & Marketing for Medallic Art Company. He started his career with IBM Corporation.
Bill is a member of the Operating Group at TPG Growth focusing on the Industrial Sector.
- B.A. Mathematics, Colgate University
- MBA Stern School of Business, New York University
-
Dan Krebs
Prior to joining TPG in 2007, Mr. Krebs was a Principal at Stolberg Equity Partners LLC where he helped lead investments in, and worked closely with, a number of high growth business services companies. Before Stolberg Equity Partners, Mr. Krebs was an investment professional at Bain Capital LLC in the San Francisco office and consultant at Bain & Company.
Dan is board member of Artel, Hilex Poly, MarketTools, VPSI, and XOJET.
- S.B. and M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- M.B.A., Harvard Business School
-
Vish Narain
Prior to joining TPG Growth in 2007, Mr. Narain was an investor with Bessemer Venture Partners in New York. Previous to that, Mr. Narain was an Engagement Manager in McKinsey's Private Equity Practice in Palo Alto and London. Along with assisting top tier PE firms with due diligence, financial analysis, and fund deployment, he advised Fortune 500 companies in the telecom and financial services sectors on technology, outsourcing, and corporate strategy. Mr. Narain joined McKinsey from Deloitte Consulting, where he was a Senior Consultant. Mr. Narain serves on the boards of several non-profits, has traveled widely visiting more than 50 countries, and is an amateur musician who plays the sitar. He holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and a Master of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi.
- Master of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology
- M.B.A., Stanford University School of Business
-
Carla Rummo
Prior to TPG Growth in October of 2008, Mrs. Rummo was a Principal at Weston Presidio, a middle market private equity firm with over $3 billion in capital. Prior to joining Weston Presidio in 2001, Mrs. Rummo spent three years in investment banking and equity capital markets at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York and a year in venture capital W.R. Hambrecht in San Francisco.
Carla is a board member of Azul and Vincraft. She is an active member of the Painted Turtle Benefit Committee.
- A.B., cum laude from Princeton University
- M.B.A., Stanford Graduate School of Business, Arjay Miller Scholar
-
John Bailey
Prior to joining TPG Growth in 2010, Mr. Bailey was with Greenwich, CT-based North Castle Partners, where he spent 5 years sourcing, negotiating and conducting due diligence on private equity transactions, principally in the consumer and healthcare sectors. Before that, John was with Credit Suisse First Boston, where he focused on leveraged finance and M&A transactions in the Media & Telecom group of the investment banking division. After completing an extensive pre-medicine curriculum, John received a BBA in Finance from the University of Michigan Business School.
- B.B.A with Highest Distinction, University of Michigan Business School
-
Erik Glover
Prior to joining TPG Growth in 2008, Mr. Glover was a Principal at Fox Paine & Company. Prior to that, Mr. Glover was with Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York as an analyst in the Industrials & Natural Resources division.
- B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
David Gowdey
Prior to joining TPG Growth in 2012, David Gowdey spent 12 years at Yahoo! where he was the Head of International M&A on the Corporate Development team. In this role, David led all transactions for Yahoo! outside of the U.S., including acquisitions, investments, strategic partnerships and new market development. David represented Yahoo! as a non-executive director on the board of seven companies. In 2011, David was also the Managing Partner at Xplorer Capital, a growth equity investment firm focused on internet and digital media opportunities in the emerging markets. Prior to Yahoo! and Xplorer, he was a National Marketing Manager with Minolta Australia.
- B.A. from Radford University
- M.B.A. from Macquarie Graduate School of Management
-
Leung Hung
Prior to joining TPG Growth in 2006, Leung Hung was Deputy General Manager of Business Development & Executive Assistant to the CEO of TOM Group, a Chinese language media conglomerate listed in Hong Kong Stock Exchange, responsible for leading and executing investment and partnership transactions across Greater China in the areas of publishing and media distribution, Internet and high-tech, sports, cable and broadband, and TV and entertainment. Mr. Hung started his career in investment banking with Barclays Capital where he took part in the financing and structuring of some of the most landmark infrastructure deals in China, including the Laibin B Power Plant and Chengdu No. 6 Water Plant as well as in pioneer private equity investments for healthcare and internet/broadband companies in China.
Mr. Hung is fluent Cantonese, Putonghua and Shanghainese.
- B.S., University of Southern California, magna cum laude
-
Manas Tandon
Prior to joining TPG Growth in 2010, Manas Tandon was a Vice President at Matrix India. Previously he was the Director of Strategic Marketing at Camiant in Marlboro, MA and before that Senior Manager of Product Management at Narad Networks. Mr. Tandon started his career at Cisco Systems as a member of the Technical Staff where he helped in developing three digital chips critical to MaxComm's home networking solution for integrating voice and data delivery over broadband.
- B.Tech, Indian Institute of Techonology
- M.B.A, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
-
Adrian Leung
Mr. Leung joined TPG Growth in 2006. Previously, Mr. Leung was an analyst at the Cathay Capital Group in Hong Kong where he involved in assessing different ventures and growth investment opportunities in Greater China. Mr. Leung also held a variety of business development and strategy formulating roles with Cathay Capitol Group's portfolio companies. Mr. Leung's focuses in China were in the area of consumer, retail, internet and media with deal experience including investments in Vinda Paper, CNInsure Inc., Boda New Continent Advertising (Rayli Magazine), China Environmental Resources Group and China Print Distribution.
- B.B.A., City University, Hong Kong
-
William Deitch
Mr. Deitch joined TPG Growth in 2009. Previously, he worked at UBS in the Media & Communications Investment Banking Division.
- B.A., Yale University with Distinction, cum laude
-
Zachary Kinloch
Mr. Kinloch joined TPG Growth in 2010. Previously, he worked at Morgan Stanley as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Technology Group.
- B.S., Stanford University
-
Vishal Rungta
Mr. Rungta joined TPG Growth in 2010. Previously, he worked in New York as a generalist analyst in investment banking at Moelis & Company.
- Graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.B.A from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business
-
Akshay Tanna
Mr. Tanna joined TPG Growth in 2011. Previously, he worked for Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank in the Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group.
- B.S., University of Pennsylvania Wharton School with Honors
-
Steve Wong
Mr. Wong joined TPG in 2010. Previously he was an Engagement Manager in McKinsey's Corporate Finance practice from 2006-2010. Prior to that, he was an Associate at Thomson Reuters.
- B.S. Northwestern University
- M.B.A., Kellogg School of Management
-
Chris Dorsey
Mr. Dorsey joined TPG Growth in 2011. Previously, he worked at J.P. Morgan as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group.
- B.B.A., The University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business
-
Vikas Mouli
Mr. Mouli joined TPG Growth in 2011. Previously, he worked at Barclays Capital as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group, focused on the energy sector.
- B.A., Harvard University with Honors
-
RJ Price
Mr. Price joined TPG Growth in 2011. Previously, he worked at Greenhill & Co. as an Investment Banking analyst in Mergers & Acquisitions.
- B.A., Yale University with Honors
-
Wendy Wen
Ms. Wen joined TPG Growth in 2011. Previously, she worked at The Blackstone Group as an Analyst in the Technology Mergers & Acquisitions Group.
- Dual B.S. in Economics and Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Phi Beta Kappa
-
David Bonderman
Mr. Bonderman is a founding partner of TPG and Newbridge Capital. Prior to forming TPG in 1993, Mr. Bonderman was Chief Operating Officer of the Robert M. Bass Group, Inc. (now doing business as Keystone, Inc.) in Fort Worth, Texas. Prior to joining the Robert M. Bass Group, Inc. in 1983, Mr. Bonderman was a partner in the law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in corporate, securities, bankruptcy and antitrust litigation. From 1969 to 1970, Mr. Bonderman was a Fellow in Foreign and Comparative Law in conjunction with Harvard University and from 1968 to 1969 he was Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division. From 1967 to 1968, Mr. Bonderman was Assistant Professor at Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. Mr. Bonderman graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and was a member of the Harvard Law Review and a Sheldon Fellow. He is also a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle. Mr. Bonderman currently serves on the boards of directors of Burger King Corporation, CoStar Group, Inc., Gemalto N.V., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Energy Future Holdings Corp. (formerly TXU Corp.), Univision Communications Inc., and Ryanair Holdings plc, of which he is Chairman. He also serves on the boards of The Wilderness Society, The Grand Canyon Trust, Inc., the World Wildlife Fund Inc., the University of Washington Foundation and the American Himalayan Foundation.
-
Jim Coulter
Mr. Coulter is a founding partner of TPG. Prior to forming TPG, Mr. Coulter was Vice President of the Robert M. Bass Group, Inc. (now doing business as Keystone, Inc.) in Fort Worth, Texas from 1986 to 1992. From 1986 to 1988, Mr. Coulter was also associated with SPO Partners & Co., an investment firm that focused on public market and private minority investments. From 1982 to 1984, Mr. Coulter was a financial analyst for Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb Inc. Mr. Coulter received an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also a Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College. Mr. Coulter serves or has served on the boards of directors of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., Lenovo Group Limited, The Neiman Marcus Group, Inc., Alltel Corporation, Seagate Technology, GlobespanVirata, Inc., J. Crew Group, Inc., Continental Airlines, Inc., Beringer Wine Estates Holdings, Inc., Northwest Airlines, Inc., Oxford Health Plans, Inc., Allied Waste Industries, Inc., and American Savings Bank. He also serves or has served on the boards of the San Francisco Zoological Society, Common Sense Media Inc., the Bay Area Discovery Museum, San Francisco University High School, and The San Francisco Day School. He is a former member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, a current co-chair of the school's Development Steering Committee and a member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University.
-
Jonathan Coslet
Mr. Coslet is a senior partner of TPG and a member of the firm's leadership committees. Prior to joining TPG in 1993, Mr. Coslet worked at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette from 1991 to 1993, specializing in leveraged acquisitions. From 1987 to 1989, Mr. Coslet worked at Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. Mr. Coslet received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and a Loeb Fellow. Mr. Coslet received his B.S.E. in Economics (Finance) from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was Valedictorian, summa cum laude, a Gordon Fellow and a Steur Fellow. Mr. Coslet has served on the boards of directors of Burger King Corporation, The Neiman Marcus Group, Inc., PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc., J. Crew Group, Inc., Biomet, Inc., Quintiles Transnational Corporation, IASIS Healthcare Corporation, Fidelity National Information Services, Inc., Endurance Specialty Insurance Ltd., Oxford Health Plans, Inc., PPOM, L.P. (now part of Cofinity, an Aetna Company), Vivra Incorporated, and several others. Mr. Coslet also serves on the Harvard Business School Advisory Board for the West Coast and the Finance Committee of the Lucille Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.
-
Dick Boyce
Mr. Boyce is a partner of TPG, head of TPG's Operating Group and a member of the firm's leadership committees. From 1997 through 1999, Mr. Boyce was President of CAF, Inc., a consulting firm that provided operating oversight and support to various companies owned by TPG. During much of this period, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of clothing retailer J. Crew Group, Inc., while providing operating oversight to the remainder of the TPG portfolio. Prior to joining TPG, Mr. Boyce was employed by PepsiCo, Inc. from 1992 to 1997, most recently as Senior Vice President of Operations for Pepsi-Cola North America. Other roles at PepsiCo, Inc. included Chief Financial Officer, General Manager of the Canadian Business Unit, and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Strategic Planning. Mr. Boyce was previously a partner at Bain & Company and worked in sales and marketing at Union Carbide Corporation before business school. Mr. Boyce received a B.S.E. with honors from Princeton University and received his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He serves on the board of directors of Burger King Corporation. Mr. Boyce has previously served on the boards of directors of Gate Gourmet International, J. Crew Group, Inc., Kraton Polymers LLC, ON Semiconductor Corporation and Network General Corporation.
-
Ronald Cami
Mr. Cami is a partner and General Counsel of TPG. From 2000 until he joined TPG in 2010, Mr. Cami was partner at the law firm, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, in New York City, where his practice was focused on mergers & acquisitions, leveraged transactions and general corporate and board advice. From 1994 through 2000, Mr. Cami was an associate in the New York and London offices of Cravath. Prior to that, Mr. Cami served as law clerk to the Honorable Kevin Thomas Duffy of the Southern District of New York, during which time Judge Duffy presided over the first World Trade Center bombing criminal case. Mr. Cami graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and earned his J.D., summa cum laude with order of the coif distinction, from Rutgers Law School.
-
James Gates
Mr. Gates is a partner of TPG and a member of the firm's leadership committees. Prior to joining TPG in 1995, Mr. Gates was Executive Vice President of Starwood Capital Group, L.P., a real estate investment firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut. In this capacity, Mr. Gates was responsible for all capital funding activities at Starwood Capital Group, L.P. From 1984 to 1992, Mr. Gates worked in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and served as Executive Director in its London office beginning in 1987. Prior to 1984, Mr. Gates was associated with the Tax Division of Arthur Andersen LLP in Chicago, specializing in corporate and partnership taxation. Mr. Gates was admitted to the state bars of Illinois and Indiana after graduating with honors from Indiana University School of Law. He received a B.S., with distinction, from DePauw University. Mr. Gates serves on the boards of the SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy) Foundation and the San Francisco Zoological Society.
-
Stephen Peel
Mr. Peel is a partner of TPG Capital based in Hong Kong, and a member of the firm's leadership committees. He heads the firm's investing activities in Greater China, India and Russia. Mr. Peel was a founder of TPG's European office in 1997. He subsequently set up the firm's activities in Eastern Europe and Russia before assuming responsibility for the emerging Asia businesses in 2008. Before joining TPG, Mr. Peel was an Executive director of Goldman Sachs International in Europe from 1989 to 1997. Mr. Peel serves or has served on Boards of Directors including; Grohe AG, British Vita Unlimited, Mey Alkollü Içkiler, Punch Taverns, Spirit Group Limited, Findexa Limited and Pivovarni Ivana Taranova. He has also served on the Boards of Right to Play UK and the Private Equity Foundation. Mr. Peel received a master's degree from Cambridge University graduating in 1987.
-
Jerome Vascellaro
Mr. Vascellaro is a partner of TPG, the firm’ s Chief Operating Officer and a member of the firm’ s leadership committees. Prior to joining TPG in 2006, Mr. Vascellaro was a senior Director at McKinsey & Company. During his 28 years at McKinsey & Company, he served clients in a range of industries in the United States and Europe to improve the effectiveness of their organizations, develop strategies for entering new businesses and markets, and turn around troubled businesses. In addition, Mr. Vascellaro held several leadership and management positions at McKinsey & Company where he was responsible for worldwide activities, including oversight of critical personnel activities and the partner personnel processes. Before business school, Mr. Vascellaro worked for General Electric Company in manufacturing positions across the United States. He has a Bachelor of Science in engineering and economics from Brown University, where he graduated with highest honors, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar. Mr. Vascellaro is Vice Chancellor of the Board of Trustees and Fellows of Brown University and co-chairs Brown’s Comprehensive Campaign. He is also a board member of the Echoing Green Foundation that supports exceptional leaders and the organizations that are solving deep-rooted social problems and a trustee of the California Academy of Sciences.
-
John Viola
Mr. Viola is a partner of TPG, the firm's Chief Financial Officer and a member of the firm's leadership committees. Prior to joining TPG in 2001, Mr. Viola was Vice President of Colony Capital, LLC, responsible for the general management of Colony Capital, LLC's operations and for certain financial matters, including investor reporting and deal structuring. Prior to joining Colony Capital, LLC in 1993, Mr. Viola was controller for the California Community Reinvestment Corporation ("CCRC"). Before joining CCRC, Mr. Viola spent five years in the Los Angeles office of Ernst & Young, where he worked with a number of public and private entrepreneurial clients. Mr. Viola currently serves on the board of the Fort Worth Zoological Association and the Board of Trustees of Trinity Valley School. Mr. Viola received a B.S. from Loyola Marymount University and an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Mr. Viola is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
-
Jim Williams
Mr. Williams is a partner of TPG and a member of the firm's Operating Group. He provides global leadership for the firm's efforts to engage and align with its management teams and for overseeing the firm's human capital initiatives (people, pay, performance) across the portfolio. Prior to joining TPG in 1999, he served as President of Kaiser/Group Health, a $3 billion integrated healthcare company. He also served as the national Senior Vice President of Operations and Strategic Development for Kaiser Permanente, a $20 billion healthcare delivery and financing organization. Before joining Kaiser in 1994, Mr. Williams was Managing Partner of the Hay Group, a large management consulting firm. During his 14 years at the Hay Group, Mr. Williams served in a variety of senior leadership roles, including member of the firm's Worldwide Management Committee and Board, Chairman of the Global Partnership Committee, Managing Director of Hay US and Director of Strategic Management Services. Before joining the Hay Group, Mr. Williams was a turnaround consultant for small and medium sized businesses. He earned a B.S., with distinction, and M.B.A., with honors, from the University of Southern California, where he was named the University's Outstanding Scholar-Athlete. Mr. Williams serves or has served on the boards of directors of several TPG companies in a fiduciary or formal advisory capacity, including MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., Altivity Packaging, LLC, Fenwal Inc., Aleris International, Inc., Kraton Polymers LLC, J. Crew Group, Inc., Seagate Technology, Burger King Corporation, and others. He formerly served on other fiduciary or advisory boards including Compaq Computer Corporation (now part of Hewlett-Packard Company), Catholic Healthcare West, American Brass and Iron and others.