David Bonderman
David Bonderman is an American billionaire businessman. He is the founding partner of TPG Capital, and its Asian affiliate, Newbridge Capital. He is also one of the minority owners of the NBA’s Boston Celtics as well as the co-founder and co-majority owner of the future National Hockey League team in Seattle.
- David Bonderman is chairman and founding partner of private equity giant TPG, which reported $108 billion in assets under management.
- “Bondo” met his longtime business partner Jim Coulter while working for billionaire Robert Bass. The pair left in 1992 to found TPG.
- Their first big deal was a $66 million investment in faltering Continental Airlines, which ultimately made them a $640 million profit.
- Together the two are still principal owners of TPG; Bonderman operates from Fort Worth and Coulter from San Francisco.
- In 1995 he created the Bonderman Travel Fellowship at the U.of Wash., sponsoring fellows to travel to at least 6 countries for 8 months.
- A support of conservation, he is a board member at large of The Wilderness Society.
- Both Coulter and Bonderman sit on the founding board of the Rise Fund, TPG’s impact investing fund.
