Portrait of Gerry Cardinale

Rank #2297

Gerry Cardinale

Net worth $1.8B

Private equity · United States

Born
May 01, 1967
Age
59
Source
Private equity
Residence
Palm Beach, Florida
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Children
0
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Harvard; Master of Philosophy, Oxford Univeristy

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Gerry Cardinale is the founder, CEO and owner of RedBird Capital Partners, a private equity firm with $12 billion in assets.
  • RedBird targets investments in entertainment, sports and financial services. It invested $1.8 billion in Skydance Media's $8 billion purchase of Paramount.
  • Cardinale spent nearly two decades at Goldman Sachs, working in Hong Kong, Singapore and New York. He was made a partner in 2004.
  • At Goldman, Cardinale helped Yankees owner George Steinbrenner launch the YES regional sports network in 2001 and Legends Hospitality with Jerry Jones in 2008.
  • Cardinale founded RedBird in 2014. The firm has backed ventures of Ben Affleck, LeBron James, and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and bought A.C. Milan in 2022.
  • Cardinale rowed heavyweight crew at Harvard as an undergrad and at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where he rowed in the 1990 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.