Timothy C. Collins
CEO & Senior Managing Director
Ripplewood Holdings LLC

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Timothy C. Collins is the senior managing director and chief executive officer of Ripplewood Holdings L.L.C. Mr. Collins founded Ripplewood, a New York–based private equity firm. Through five institutional private equity funds, the firm has invested over $4 billion in transactions in the U.S., Asia, Europe, and the Middle East across several industry platforms including consumer and business services, industrials, and financial services. Ripplewood has done several of the largest private equity investments ever, including the acquisition of Shinsei, the former Long-Term Credit Bank. Shinsei is to date the most profitable private equity investment ever. Previously, Mr. Collins managed the New York office of Onex Corporation, a Toronto-based investment company. Prior to Onex, Mr. Collins was a vice president at Lazard Frères & Company and before that, Mr. Collins worked with the management consulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, where he specialized in strategic and operational issues of major industrial and financial firms. Mr. Collins began his career as a financial planning manager with Cummins Engine Company.

Mr. Collins currently serves as a director of Commercial International Bank of Egypt (EY:COMI), Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE:C), and Germany1 BV, the successor entity to AEG Power Solutions BV (EURONEXT: GAL1S), and as chairman of the Investment and Strategy Committee of the Board of Directors of RHJ International SA (EURONEXT: RHJI.BR), each of which is publicly traded. He also serves on the board of Weather Investments S.p.A., an Italian company.

Mr. Collins is involved in several not-for-profit and public sector activities, including the Trilateral Commission, Yale Divinity School Advisory Board, Yale School of Management Board of Advisors, and the Board of Overseers of the Weill Cornell Medical College, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Collins also serves on the board of the Tony Blair Foundation.

Mr. Collins has a BA degree in philosophy from DePauw University and an MBA in public and private management from Yale University’s School of Organization and Management. Mr. Collins received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from DePauw University.

Mr. Collins and his wife Andrea reside in Bronxville, New York, and have three children.