Rank #1329
Lawrence Golub
Net worth $3.3B
Private equity · United States
- Born
- Oct 03, 1959
- Age
- 66
- Source
- Private equity
- Residence
- New York, New York
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Harvard College; Doctor of Jurisprudence, Harvard Law School
Net worth over time
Biography
- Lawrence Golub is the CEO of Golub Capital, a private credit firm he founded in 1994 that has $75 billion in capital under management.
- Golub Capital started as a buyout firm, but after the 2000 dotcom bust, Golub shifted its strategy to lending.
- In 2003, Golub recruited his younger brother, David, who now serves as CEO of the firm's publicly traded business development company.
- Since the 2008 financial crisis, Golub Capital has grown dramatically to become a major player in financing middle-market private equity deals.
- Golub is an active philanthropist who supports Parkinson's research, the American Repertory Theater, and hospitals in New York and Boston.
- Golub took a year off of Wall Street to be a White House Fellow from 1992 to 1993, first working under the George H.W. Bush administration and then Clinton.