Overlooked new ownership partners

SILVER LAKE PARTNERS

Silver Lake is a private equity firm with investments in technology and many technology based industries. Silver Lake has invested in companies such as Dell, Go Daddy, and of course WME-IMG. Silver Lake reportedly purchased a 31-percent stake in WME as part of their investment portfolio with the company.

Silver Lake was a key partner in William Morris Endeavor merging and purchasing IMG in 2013 and remain financial partners with the agency now as well.

The Silicon Valley based firm famously purchased a controlling stake in Skype for a reported $1.9 billion before selling it to Microsoft two years later for $8.5 billion.

Assets under management26 billion USD

 

Egon Durban

Managing Partner and Managing Director

Silicon Valley

Partners

Egon Durban is a Managing Partner and Managing Director of Silver Lake, which he joined in 1999 as a founding principal. He is based in the firm's Menlo Park office and has previously served in the New York office as well as the London office, which he launched and managed from 2005 to 2010. Mr. Durban serves on the board of directors of Dell, Intelsat S.A., Motorola Solutions, and is Chairman of the Board of Directors of WME Entertainment.  Previously, he served on the board of Skype, and was the chairman of its operating committee, and served on the supervisory board and operating committee of NXP B.V., and Multiplan Inc. Mr. Durban currently serves on the board of Tipping Point, a poverty-fighting organization that identifies and funds leading non-profit programs in the Bay Area to assist individuals and families in need.

 

Prior to Silver Lake, Mr. Durban worked in Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking Division. While at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Durban organized and led a joint initiative between the Corporate Finance Technology Group and the Mergers and Acquisitions Financial Sponsors Group to analyze and present investment opportunities in the technology industry. Previously, Mr. Durban worked in Morgan Stanley's Corporate Finance Technology and Equity Capital Markets groups. Mr. Durban graduated from Georgetown University with a B.S. in Finance.

 

Joerg Adams

Director

Silicon Valley

Partners

Joerg Adams joined Silver Lake in 2006 and is a Director. Previously, he worked in the Natural Resources Investment Banking Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Prior to Goldman, Sachs & Co., he worked in the Fixed Income Investment Management Division at J.P. Morgan.  Previously he was a director of IPC Systems, Inc.  Mr. Adams graduated from Indiana University with a B.Sc. in Finance and holds a degree in Business Administration from the European School of Business in Reutlingen, Germany.

 

Kyle Paster

Principal

Silicon Valley

Partners

Kyle Paster joined Silver Lake in 2011 and is a Principal. Previously, he worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse in San Francisco. Mr. Paster graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he received a Bachelor of Science in Economics with dual concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurship, and a minor in Legal Studies and History.

 

 

Glenn Hutchins

Co-Founder

New York

Partners

Glenn Hutchins is a co-founder of Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing. He is a director of both AT&T and Nasdaq, Inc.; a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; vice chairman of both the Brookings Institution and the Economic Club of New York; and a member of the Executive Committee of the New York Presbyterian Hospital. He is an owner and member of the Executive Committee of the Boston Celtics basketball team. Mr. Hutchins is a director of the Harvard Management Company, which is responsible for the Harvard University endowment, and co-chairman of the University’s capital campaign. He is also a board member of the Center for American Progress as well as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Previously, Mr. Hutchins served President Clinton in both the transition and the White House as a special advisor on economic and health-care policy. He was also previously chairman of the board of SunGard Data Systems, Inc. and Instinet, Inc.

 

Mr. Hutchins and his wife, Debbie, founded the Hutchins Family Foundation which, among other projects, has created the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, which is chaired by Mr. Hutchins; the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at The Brookings Institution; and the Chronic Fatigue Initiative, which conducts basic research into the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome.

 

Mr. Hutchins holds an A.B. from Harvard College, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

 
 
 

David Roux

Co-Founder and Senior Director

 

Partners

Dave Roux is a co-founder and Senior Director of Silver Lake, where he previously served as co-CEO.  He was formerly Chairman and CEO of Liberate Technologies, Executive Vice President at Oracle Corporation, and Senior Vice President at Lotus Development. Mr. Roux began his technology career as co-founder and CEO of Datext.  Previously, Mr. Roux was a board member of Avaya Inc., Business Objects S.A., Gartner, Inc., Intelsat S.A., Symantec, Thomson, UGS Corp., and was the Chairman of the Board of Seagate Technology and Serena Software. David serves on the boards of Boston Scientific, Bristol Seafoods, The National Audubon Society, Jackson Laboratory, Bowdoin College, and The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.  Mr. Roux holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an M. Phil. from King’s College, Cambridge University. He is a graduate of Harvard College.

 
 

Jim Davidson

Co-Founder, Managing Partner and Managing Director

Silicon Valley

Partners

Jim Davidson is one of the original founding partners of Silver Lake, which he co-founded in 1999. He is currently a Managing Partner and Managing Director of Silver Lake, and serves as Chairman of the Managing Partners Committee and on the Investment Committees of several Silver Lake funds. Mr. Davidson has been an active advisor to and investor in the technology industries for more than 30 years. Prior to Silver Lake, Mr. Davidson was a Managing Director at Hambrecht & Quist, a technology-focused investment bank and venture capital firm (now part of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., "H&Q"). Mr. Davidson managed several businesses at H&Q, including the Technology Investment Banking business and the Mergers and Acquisitions business. Prior to H&Q, he was a corporate securities attorney for Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro. Mr. Davidson is an active "angel investor" and advisor to several private companies, primarily through Paxion, a multi-family office he formed with other successful investors and operating executives. Mr. Davidson also serves on the boards of a number of non-profit organizations including the University of California, Berkeley Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science & Management, and the Basketball Hall of Fame. Mr. Davidson holds a B.S. from the University of Nebraska and a J.D. from the University of Michigan.

 
 

KKR - KOHLBERG KRAVIS ROBERTS

A strategic investor in the UFC purchase, KKR is a multinational private equity firm that specializes in leveraged buyouts. Founded in 1976 by Jerome Kohlberg, Henry Kravis and George Roberts, KKR has been a part of some massive purchases over the years including a buyout of RJR Nabisco.

KKR has also made significant investments in industries such as health care, retail, energy and natural resources.

 

Henry R. Kravis

Henry R. Kravis

Co-Chairman and Co-CEO
 
 
 
Henry Kravis (New York) co-founded KKR in 1976 and is Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer. He is actively involved in managing the Firm and serves on regional Private Equity Investment and Portfolio Management Committees. Mr. Kravis currently serves on the boards of First Data Corporation and ICONIQ Capital, LLC. He also serves as a director, chairman emeritus or trustee of several cultural, professional, and educational institutions, including The Business Council, Claremont McKenna College, Columbia Business School, Mount Sinai Hospital, Partnership for New York City, Partnership Fund for New York City, Rockefeller University, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity and Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. He earned a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College in 1967 and an M.B.A. from the Columbia Business School in 1969. Mr. Kravis has more than four decades of experience financing, analyzing, and investing in public and private companies, as well as serving on the boards of a number of KKR portfolio companies.

Henry Kravis (New York) co-founded KKR in 1976 and is Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer. He is actively involved in managing the Firm and serves on regional Private Equity Investment and Portfolio Management Committees. Mr. Kravis currently serves on the boards of First Data Corporation and ICONIQ Capital, LLC. He also serves as a director, chairman emeritus or trustee of several cultural, professional, and educational institutions, including The Business Council, Claremont McKenna College, Columbia Business School, Mount Sinai Hospital, Partnership for New York City, Partnership Fund for New York City, Rockefeller University, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity and Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. He earned a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College in 1967 and an M.B.A. from the Columbia Business School in 1969. Mr. Kravis has more than four decades of experience financing, analyzing, and investing in public and private companies, as well as serving on the boards of a number of KKR portfolio companies.

 

"He is the co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a private equity firm with $94.3 billion in assets as of December 31, 2013. He has an estimated net worth of $4.8 billion as of September 2015, ranked by Forbes as the 108th richest man in America and the 278th richest man in the world."

George R. Roberts

George R. Roberts

Co-Chairman and Co-CEO
Menlo Park
 
 

George R. Roberts (Menlo Park) co-founded KKR in 1976 and is Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer. He is actively involved in managing the Firm and serves on regional Private Equity Investment and Portfolio Management Committees. Mr. Roberts has served as a director or trustee of several cultural and educational institutions, including Claremont McKenna College. He is also founder and Chairman of the board of directors of REDF, a San Francisco nonprofit organization. He earned a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College in 1966 and a J.D. from the University of California (Hastings) Law School in 1969. Mr. Roberts has more than four decades of experience financing, analyzing, and investing in public and private companies, as well as serving on the boards of a number of KKR portfolio companies.

 

Net worth4.7 billion USD (2015) Forbes

 

MSD CAPITAL

The company responsible for the investments involving Michael S. Dell, who is best known as the creator behind Dell Inc and Dell computers.

Dell is listed by Forbes as the 35st richest person in the world with a net worth around $19.8 billion.

 

MSD Capital has teamed up with Silver Lake previous in a sale to purchase EMC, a company specializing in cloud computing, information security and data storage. They also teamed up to acquire Dell Computers, a company Michael Dell started with $1,000 when he was still a teenager 30 years ago. 

http://www.foxsports.com/ufc/story/ufc-sold-new-owners-ari-emanuel-wme-img-patrick-whitesell-4-billion-071116

http://www.kkr.com/our-firm/team

http://www.silverlake.com/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2013/09/04/the-top-50-dealmakers-2/#315c5e6f6884

WME-IMG

Ari Emanuel, Alibaba founder Jack Ma, and talent agent Patrick Whitesell 

William Morris Endeavor-International Marketing Group is a huge conglomerate that merged in 2013 after WME purchased IMG for a reported $2.4 billion price tag. WME already boasted an incredibly powerful slate of clients as a talent agency representing movies, television, music and more. Some of the clients represented by WME include Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Oprah Winfrey, Dwayne Johnson, Justin Timberlake, Drake and Rihanna.

IMG is an international sports, events and talent management agency based out of New York. IMG hosts a number of big sporting events and also heads up the PBR -- Professional Bull Riders.

Since merging, WME-IMG have worked on a ton of crossover promotions combining the talent agency's impressive roster of talent with events and sports programming.

 

ARI EMANUEL and PATRICK WHITESELL

One of the names you'll hear the most during this UFC sale is Ari Emanuel, who is the co-CEO behind WME-IMG.

 

Emanuel is already well known within the UFC after helping to orchestrate the television deal that landed the promotion with FOX in 2011. He also had a hand in helping fighters like Jon Jones negotiate deals with brands such as Gatorade and Nike in the past.

 

 

Emanuel is a veteran agent, who started his career with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) as well as ICM Partners before founding his own company called Endeavor. Eventually in 2009, Emanuel along with co-CEO Patrick Whitesell led an initiative to merge the company with the William Morris Agency to create one of the largest talent agencies in the world.

 

 

Emanuel may best be known as the inspiration behind the character Ari Gold in the HBO series "Entourage". Famously the Ari Gold character was originally based on another agent, but after "Entourage" creator Doug Ellin met with Emanuel, he changed his mind about the creative process. Emanuel also made a push for Jeremy Piven to play the character when casting was being done for the show and he represents Mark Wahlberg, who the show was loosely based on when first created.

 

Emanuel is also the brother of Rahm Emanuel, who is the current mayor of Chicago and former chief of staff to President Barack Obama.

 

Patrick Whitesell is a former agent who worked with United Talent Agency and also served as the head of talent at Creative Artists Agency for six years. Whitesell eventually teamed up with Emanueal as a co-CEO after the merger between William Morris and Endeavor in 2009.

Whitesell's client list also includes a slew of "A" list celebrities including Ryan Reynolds, Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal.

 

 

Both Emanuel and Whitesell are known for being fierce negotiators and extremely passionate when doing business for their clients. WME-IMG already represents former women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey.

 

 

As you can see the UFC sold to some god damn major players.

The sport of MMA is in fantastic hands. The amount of potential capital behind the UFC is now ten fold.

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I fully expect to see Michael Dell screaming expletives at the cast of the next TUF Phone Post 3.0

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UGCTT_Messiah - I fully expect to see Michael Dell screaming expletives at the cast of the next TUF Phone Post 3.0

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I tried to combine multiple sources, using Damon Martin's superlative work as the backbone.

Get familiar with the new overlords.

It was nice knowing the ufc was owned by basically 2 guys.
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I'mNotSurprisedMotherf**kers - It was nice knowing the ufc was owned by basically 2 guys.
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Really?

There's much more capital behind the UFC now and these guys are all highly educated, with a tremendous business acumen.

Zuffa sold to guys that would be able to continue and grow this thing and do it in new ways.