Silver Lake Partners

 

Silver Lake Partners

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Lake_Partner 

Silver Lake is an American private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in technology, technology-enabled and related industries. Founded in 1999, the firm is an investment firm in the technology sector and among its investments are Avago, Dell, Alibaba, Go Daddy, William Morris Endeavor/IMG, Avaya, Sabre Holdings, Skype, Seagate Technology^[2] and Instinet.

Silver Lake operates through three primary businesses, all focused on technology investments:

• Silver Lake Partners makes private equity investments in large cap technology companies. Silver Lake Partners was the firm's original business founded by Jim Davidson, Dave Roux, Roger McNamee and Glenn Hutchins, and comprises the bulk of the firm's assets under management.^[3]

• Silver Lake Sumeru – focuses on technology investments in middle-market companies. The Sumeru business was formerly known as Shah Capital founded by Ajay Shah.

• Silver Lake Financial a credit focused business invests in distressed debt securities in companies in the technology sector.

The firm, which is headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California has about 75 investment staff across offices in New York City, London and Hong Kong.

Silver Lake Partners

Silver Lake Partners is an affiliate of Silver Lake.

Note: Silver Lake Kraftwerk Fund is a fund for Silver Lake.

Catherine Radford Zoi is an executive for Silver Lake Kraftwerk Fund, and was the assistant secretary for energy efficiency at the U.S. Department of Energy for the Barack Obama administration.

Soros Fund Management is a partner with the Silver Lake Kraftwerk Fund.

George Soros is the founder of Soros Fund Management, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

John S. Chen was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and is a special adviser for Silver Lake.

Glenn H. Hutchins is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and was the founder & managing partner for Silver Lake.

Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

R. Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Sidley Austin LLP is the lobby firm  for the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.

Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Rahm I. Emanuel is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the Chicago (IL) mayor, Ari Emanuel’s brother, and was the White House chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.

Ari Emanuel is Rahm I. Emanuel’s brother, and the co-CEO & director for William Morris Endeavor Entertainment.