CHAPTER 29

Tim Collins

SENIOR MANAGING DIRECTOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, RIPPLEWOOD HOLDINGS

Tim Collins is the senior managing director and chief executive officer of Ripplewood Holdings L.L.C., a company he founded in 1995 to apply an industrial partnership approach to leveraged acquisitions.

Since its inception, Ripplewood has invested in companies with more than $20 billion of revenue and has led several of the largest private equity transactions ever, including the acquisition of Shinsei Bank—the former Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan—which was a pioneering transaction in the restructuring of the Japanese economy.

Previously, Collins managed Onex Corporation’s New York office. In addition, he was a vice president at Lazard Frères ...

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