Portrait of J. Tomilson Hill

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J. Tomilson Hill

Net worth $3.0B

Investments · United States

Born
May 24, 1948
Age
78
Source
Investments
Residence
New York, New York
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Married
Children
2
Education
Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Harvard University

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Mergers and acquisitions maven J. Tomilson "Tom" Hill started off his career at investment bank First Boston, where he cofounded the M&A department.
  • Hill later became a partner at Lehman Brothers in the 1980s, where he befriended Blackstone cofounders Pete Peterson and Stephen Schwarzman.
  • In 1993, after being ousted as co-CEO at Lehman, he joined Peterson and Schwarzman at Blackstone, their growing private equity firm.
  • Hill, who took over Blackstone's hedge fund group in 2000 and became vice chairman in 2007, stepped down from his position in 2019.
  • He now heads the Hill Art Foundation and is CEO of hedge fund Two Sigma's real estate business and chairman of its private investments business.
  • While at Lehman, Hill was involved in high profile deals such as Time Inc.'s $14 billion merger with Warner Communications, which created media behemoth Time Warner.
  • Hill is an avid art collector, with a collection that reportedly includes pieces by Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon.

Financial assets

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