J. Christopher Flowers

Net worth over time

Biography

• J. Christopher Flowers runs private equity firm J.C. Flowers & Co., which focuses on the financial services sector.
• Flowers studied math at Harvard and then joined Goldman Sachs in 1979, becoming a partner in 1988.
• He struck out on his own a decade later and in 2000 bought a beleaguered Japanese bank, Long Term Credit Bank, which had been nationalized in 1998.
• He resold the business to the public under the moniker Shinsei Bank in 2004; the partners reaped $2.3 billion.
• In 2008, he helped advise Bank of America and Merrill Lynch on their merger.
• Flowers joined board of directors for the Kasparov Chess Foundation, named for legendary chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, in 2015.
• During his college years, Flowers wrote for the Harvard Crimson.

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