Lynn Tilton - Patriarch Partners
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December 12th, 2008
Lynn Tilton is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Patriarch Partners LLC, a private equity investment firm with offices in New York, Charlotte, North Carolina and Dallas,Texas. Funds affiliated with Patriarch manage assets in excess of $6 billion and include majority and minority ownership positions in more than 67 companies. Founded by Tilton in 2000, the firm was created to develop innovative financial solutions and to manage and monetize the distressed portfolios of financial institutions. The platform later evolved toward fund investments focused primarily
upon the acquisition of companies undergoing pervasive change and loan origination to those same companies.
Under Ms. Tilton’s leadership, Patriarch has positioned itself as a proactive partner to companies during periods of operational, industrial and economic transformation. Patriarch provides liquidity, time and strategic support, frequently saving US companies and US jobs. Patriarch inspires management teams to rebuild, using creative structural solutions and add-on investments in order to enhance companies’ long-term values.
Tilton’s 26 year career on Wall Street has spanned private equity, distressed asset management, financial engineering, investment banking, loan research, sales and trading and senior operational management. In addition to her CEO role at Patriarch, Ms. Tilton currently serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MD Helicopters, Inc., a leading manufacturer of commercial and military aircraft.
Prior to founding Patriarch Partners, Ms. Tilton was an executive at Long Drive Management Trust (LDMT), where she served a dual role in the development of strategies for the distressed debt managed by that firm and the creation of new varieties of investment vehicles. Prior to her tenure at LDMT, Ms. Tilton was Executive Managing Director of Papillon Partners, Inc., a NASD Broker/Dealer that she founded to offer customized research, valuation, and execution services to sellers of bank loans and high yield bonds.
Before Papillon Partners, Ms. Tilton accumulated eight years of experience in the research, sales, trading and investing of distressed debt at Oppenheimer & Co, M.J. Whitman, Inc. and Amroc Investments, Inc.
Ms. Tilton began her career in mergers and acquisitions at Morgan Stanley & Co. in 1981 and, continued her career in corporate finance and merchant banking at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch until 1989.
Ms. Tilton earned a B.A in American Studies from Yale University and an MBA in Finance from Columbia University.
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