Rank #3075
Michael Rees
Net worth $1.2B
Private equity · United States
- Born
- Mar 19, 1975
- Age
- 51
- Source
- Private equity
- Residence
- New Canaan, Connecticut
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Master of Arts/Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Pittsburgh
Net worth over time
Biography
- Michael Rees is cofounder and co-president of Blue Owl, which manages $250 billion and formed in 2021 when his Dyal Capital merged with Owl Rock Capital.
- Dyal, since renamed Blue Owl GP Strategic Capital, is known for buying minority stakes in more than 60 other private equity firms.
- Rees' division also invests in professional sports, with a fund that owns pieces of the NBA's Phoenix Suns, Sacramento Kings and Atlanta Hawks.
- Rees still heads Blue Owl GP Strategic Capital, which oversees $66 billion. The rest of the firm's assets are in private credit and real estate.
- Rees spent seven years at Lehman Brothers and started Dyal as a subsidiary of Neuberger Berman, which bought out parts of the bankrupt Lehman in 2009.
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