Michael Chu (private equity investor)

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Michael Chu
Personal details
Born1958 (age 63–64)
Spouse(s)Elizabeth Kalperis
EducationBates College (BA)

James Michael Chu (born 1958) is an American private equity manager who has served as the global co-chief executive officer (CEO) of L Catterton since 1989.[1][2]

Early life and education[]

Chu graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1980 with a B.A. in psychology and economics, where he was a member of the Board of Trustees from 1995 to 2013.[3]

Career[]

Chu held a variety of senior financial management positions with The First Pacific Company, a Hong Kong publicly listed investment and management company which he joined in early 1983.[3] He founded Catterton-Simon Partners in 1982 with Frank Vest and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon.[4] In 2015, Catterton Partners took on as minor partners Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) and Groupe Arnault (the family office of Bernard Arnault, bringing together $12 billion in assets as L Catterton.[2] In May 2018, his firm was listed as the 31st largest private equity firm in the world, based on capital raised over the prior five years.[5]

Personal life[]

Chu is married to Elizabeth Kalperis Chu and they have two grown children.

See also[]

Honors[]

Marshall Scholarship

References[]

  1. ^ "J. Michael Chu: Executive Profile & Biography". Businessweek. Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved August 14, 2017.
  2. ^ a b Picker, Leslie (January 5, 2016). "LVMH's Private Equity Arm to Merge With Catterton". The New York Times. Retrieved November 22, 2018.
  3. ^ a b "J. Michael Chu: Executive Profile". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved November 20, 2018.
  4. ^ Taylor, Alexander (July 16, 1984). "Buyout Binge". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  5. ^ "PEI 300 full report". Retrieved November 15, 2018.


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