Tim Collins (financier)

Timothy C. Collins, born 1956, is the founder, senior managing director, and chief executive officer of Ripplewood Holdings LLC.

Collins was born in Frankfort, Kentucky. Raised in Fostoria, Ohio. A 1974 graduate of Fostoria High School. He has a B.A. degree in Philosophy from DePauw University and an MBA from Yale School of Management.

He began his career in finance, marketing, and manufacturing at Cummins Engine Company. From 1981 to 1984, he worked with the management consulting firm of Booz & Company, specializing in strategic and operational assignments with major industrial and financial firms. He became a vice president at Lazard Frères in New York, then managed Onex Corporation’s New York office.

Founded in 1995, Ripplewood manages about $4.0 billion in four institutional private equity funds: Ripplewood Partners, L.P., Ripplewood Partners II, L.P., RHJ Industrial Partners, L.P. and New LTCB Partners C.V. The company invests in education publishing, telecom, automotive retail, specialty chemicals, consumer products & food manufacturing, and industrial products.

Ripplewood has invested in nearly a dozen industry groups and in companies with more than $20 billion of revenue. It has led several of the largest private equity transactions, including its takeover of the Long-Term Credit Bank, renamed Shinsei Bank, which helped restructure the Japanese economy. Collins was named one of the “25 Stars of Asia: Leaders at the Forefront of Change” by BusinessWeek magazine.

Collins is a director of several public companies as well as some of Ripplewood’s private portfolio companies. He is involved in several not-for-profit and public sector activities, including the U.S.-Japan Business Council, the Trilateral Commission, the U.S.-Japan Private Sector/Government Commission, Yale Divinity School advisory board, Yale School of Management board of advisors, American Friends of the British Museum, Yaddo, the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, Trout Unlimited, and Lenox Hill Neighborhood House.

His managing partner is Lawrence Lavine.

References

[http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_50/b3761012.htm Tim Collins resume] at BW Online

[http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=15900] DePauw University awards Tim Collins honorary doctoral degree