Citizenship American Net worth 2.3 billion USD (2015) Religion Methodist Parents Shirley Nagler | Name James Coulter Role Financier | |
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Alma mater Dartmouth CollegeStanford Business School Occupation Co-founder of Texas Pacific Group Employer TPG Capital (formerly Texas Pacific Group) | ||
Organizations founded TPG Capital | ||
James Coulter (born 1959) is an American investment manager, the co-founder of private equity firm TPG Capital, originally known as the Texas Pacific Group.
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Early life and education
Coulter was born on December 1, 1959, and raised in a Methodist family, the son of Shirley (née Nagler) and James W. Coulter. His father was a chemical salesman for Chevron. He is a graduate of Shawnee High School in Medford, New Jersey. He graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College, where he was also a member of Alpha Chi Alpha. He subsequently received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1986, where he was named an Arjay Miller Scholar.
Career
In 1992, Coulter co-founded the Fort Worth and San Francisco-based private equity firm TPG along with David Bonderman. With 14 offices in 10 countries, the firm is one of the largest globally with approximately $50 billion of assets under management. Prior to co-founding TPG in 1992, Coulter and the other co-founders worked for Robert M. Bass. Coulter joined the Robert M. Bass Group from Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb.
Coulter has been involved in some of the largest leveraged buyout transactions on record including TPG's marquee transaction, the takeover of Continental Airlines in 1993. He has also been involved with TPG's investments in America West Airlines, Burger King, Del Monte Foods, J. Crew, Ducati Motor Holding, Gemplus International, MEMC, ON Semiconductor, Oxford Health Plans, Petco and Seagate Technology.
Coulter is known within TPG by the nickname,"Mr. Optionality" for his habitual indecisiveness - a quality that proves frustrating to the firm's deal partners.
He is the founder of the Coulter IDEApitch at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week.
Personal life
Coulter is married to Penny Saer from New Orleans. They have three children.
Coulter serves as a member on numerous boards: