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Michael Chu (private equity investor)

Michael Chu (private equity investor)

American private equity manager

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

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Early life and education

Chu graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1980, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree with major in psychology and economics. At Bates, he was a member of the Board of Trustees from 1995 to 2013.[3]

Executive 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] In June 2022, L Catterton were ranked 30th in Private Equity International's 2022 PEI 300 ranking.[6][7]

Personal life

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

See also

Honors

Marshall Scholarship

References

  1. [1]
    "J. Michael Chu: Executive Profile & Biography". Businessweek. Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved August 14, 2017.
  2. [2]
    Picker, Leslie (January 5, 2016). "LVMH's Private Equity Arm to Merge With Catterton". The New York Times. Retrieved November 22, 2018.
  3. [3]
    "J. Michael Chu: Executive Profile". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved November 20, 2018.
  4. [4]
    Taylor, Alexander (July 16, 1984). "Buyout Binge". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  5. [5]
    "PEI 300 full report". Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  6. [6]
    "PEI 300 2022: KKR beats the crowd to claim PE’s throne". Private Equity International, June 1, 2022.
  7. [7]
    "PEI 300". Private Equity International, June 1, 2022.
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