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Tony Tamer

Tony Tamer
Born Anthony Tamer
Alma mater Rutgers University
Stanford University
Harvard Business School
Spouse(s) Sandra Tamer
Children 4

Tony Tamer is a business executive and the Founder and Co-CEO of H.I.G. Capital, a leading global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with $21 billion of equity capital under management. He previously held positions at Bain & Company, Hewlett-Packard, and Sprint Corporation.

Tony Tamer holds an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School, and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His undergraduate degree is from Rutgers University.

Tony Tamer began his career at Hewlett-Packard and later at Sprint Corporation in a variety of engineering, marketing and manufacturing positions. Tamer then joined Bain & Company in 1986 where he ultimately became a partner until he left the firm in 1993. At Bain, he developed business unit and operating strategies, implemented productivity improvement initiatives, and led acquisition and divestiture activities for a number of Fortune 500 clients.

In 1993 Tony Tamer co-founded H.I.G. Capital with Sami Mnaymneh. Together, Tamer and Mnaymneh have developed H.I.G. Capital into a global private equity firm with $21 billion of equity capital under management. Based in Miami, and with offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Atlanta in the U.S., as well as international affiliate offices in London, Hamburg, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Bogotá and Rio de Janeiro, H.I.G. Capital specializes in providing both debt and equity capital to small and mid-sized companies, utilizing a flexible and operationally focused/ value-added approach:

Since its founding in 1993, H.I.G. has invested in and managed more than 200 companies worldwide. The firm's current portfolio includes more than 100 companies with combined sales in excess of $30 billion.

Tamer is married and has four daughters. His wife Sandra holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Action Against Hunger, the RMF Foundation, the PAMM Museum, and the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia University.


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