Portrait of Mark Attanasio

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Mark Attanasio

Net worth $1.9B

Finance · United States

Born
Sep 29, 1957
Age
68
Source
Finance
Residence
Los Angeles, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Married
Children
2
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Brown University; JD, Columbia University

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Mark Attanasio is a managing partner and cofounder of Crescent Capital Group, a Los Angeles-based debt-focused investment firm with $43 billion in assets under management.
  • He is also chairman and principal owner of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team; he bought an estimated 45% stake in the team in 2004 for a reported $220 million.
  • Forbes now values the Brewers at $1.6 billion.
  • Attanasio is an investor in Strategic Sports Group, a group of sports team owners that in 2024 inked a deal to invest $3 billion in the PGA golf tour.
  • He first worked as a lawyer, then in the mid 1980s joined investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert, a pioneer in junk-bond trading. He cofounded Crescent in 1991.
  • Attanasio is majority shareholder of Norwich City FC, a team that competes in the second tier of English professional soccer.
  • He was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, the son of actor Joe Attanasio (d. 2015) who sang the national anthem at home games for the Brewers.