Rank #883
Steven Klinsky
Net worth $4.9B
Investments · United States
- Born
- May 30, 1956
- Age
- 69
- Source
- Investments
- Residence
- New York, New York
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Doctor of Jurisprudence, Harvard Law School; Bachelor of Arts/Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Net worth over time
Biography
- Steve Klinsky founded the $55 billion (assets) investment firm New Mountain Capital in 1999.
- Klinsky rose to become one of the top partners at Forstmann Little, an early private equity titan, before striking out on his own.
- One of the buyout industry's top performers, New Mountain Capital specializes in private equity, private credit and real estate.
- Its private equity business, known for buying and growing small and midsized companies through acquisitions, has never had an investment default.
- Klinsky's wife, Maureen Sherry, is a former Bear Stearns banker who, in 2016, published "Opening Belle," a fictionalized account of a woman navigating crisis-era Wall Street.
- Klinsky founded ModernStates.org, a philanthropic group focused on making college affordable.