Silver Lake Partners

Silver Lake

Type	Private, Limited liability company
Industry	Private equity, Technology
Founded	1999; 18 years ago (1999)
Founder	James Davidson, David Roux, Roger McNamee, Glenn Hutchins
Headquarters	2775 Sand Hill Road Menlo Park, California, United States
Number of locations	8 offices in 5 countries
Key people	James Davidson Mike Bingle Egon Durban Ken Hao Greg Mondre
Products	Leveraged buyout, Growth capital
AUM	$26 billion
Number of employees	100+
Website	www.silverlake.com

Silver Lake is an American private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in technology, technology-enabled and related industries. Founded in 1999, the firm is one of the largest technology investors in the world. Notable among its investment holdings are Broadcom, Dell, Alibaba, Go Daddy, William Morris Endeavor, IMG Worldwide, Avaya, Sabre Holdings, Skype, Symantec, GLG, Seagate Technology and NASDAQ. Silver Lake is headquartered in Menlo Park with offices in San Mateo, Cupertino, New York, London, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo.

Silver Lake operates through four primary businesses, all focused on technology investments:

Silver Lake was founded in 1999, at the height of the late 1990s technology boom to make private equity investments in mature technology companies as opposed to the startups pursued actively by venture capitalists. Among the firm's founders were the four amigos Jim Davidson who had led the Technology Investment Banking business at Hambrecht & Quist; David Roux who had an operational and entrepreneurial background having served as chairman and CEO of Liberate Technologies, executive vice president at Oracle Corporation and senior vice president at Lotus Development; Roger McNamee, who had previously co-founded Integral Capital Partners, a hybrid investment fund that made investments in publicly traded companies and venture capital investments in early stage startups; and Glenn Hutchins, who came from Blackstone Group and served as a Special Advisor on economic and healthcare policy in the early Clinton Administration and previously worked at Thomas H. Lee Partners;.