Timothy Collins
International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Experience
Timothy C. Collins is the Senior Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Ripplewood Holdings LLC.. Mr. Collins founded Ripplewood in 1995 to apply an “Industrial Partnership” approach to leveraged acquisitions. Previously, Mr. Collins managed Onex Corporation’s New York office, where he led the effort to identify and recruit five of the senior operating executives responsible for Onex’s Industrial Partnerships. Mr. Collins also played a key role in overseeing and restructuring several pre-existing Onex investments. Prior to Onex, Mr. Collins was a Vice President at Lazard Frères & Co., LLC. in New York (1984 to 1990) and from 1981 to 1984, he worked with the management-consulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc., specializing in strategic and operational assignments with major industrial and financial firms. He began his career in finance, marketing, and manufacturing at Cummins Engine Company. Ripplewood currently manages approximately $3.9 billion of committed capital through four institutional private equity funds: Ripplewood Partners, L.P., Ripplewood Partners II, L.P., RHJ Industrial Partners, L.P. and New LTCB Partners C.V. The company invests in various sectors: education publishing and training, selected technology market segments, automotive retail, specialty chemicals, consumer products & food manufacturing, and industrial products. Ripplewood’s recent purchase of the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, since renamed Shinsei Bank and one of Japan’s largest banks, was the first takeover of a Japanese bank by a foreign investor and the largest LBO ever done.
In addition to serving on the Ripplewood Board, he is a director of Shinsei Bank, WRC Media Inc., Asbury Automotive Group, Columbia Music Entertainment (Japan), D&M Holdings, Inc., Meyer’s Bakeries, and Kraton Polymers LLC.. Mr. Collins is a member of the Board of Lennox Hill Neighborhood House, Yale Divinity School, American Friends of the British Museum, Rosie’s For All Kids Foundation, United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, and the Trilateral Commission.
Mr. Collins has a B.A. degree in Philosophy from DePauw University and a M.B.A. in Public and Private Management from Yale University’s School of Organization and Management.
