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.