Warren Hellman
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Warren Hellman at Old Settler's Music Festival in Driftwood, TX (2010).
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| Born |
Frederick Warren Hellman July 25, 1934 New York City |
| Died | December 18, 2011 (aged 77) San Francisco, California |
| Residence | San Francisco, California |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education |
University of California, Berkeley (BA, 1955) Harvard Business School (MBA, 1959) |
| Occupation | Private equity, Investment banking (prior) |
| Employer | Hellman & Friedman |
| Known for | Founder of Hellman & Friedman, Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates (today Matrix Partners) |
| Spouse(s) | Patricia Christina Sander |
| Children | Marco Hellman Frances Hellman Judith Hellman Patricia Hellman Gibbs |
| Parent(s) | Ruth Koshland Marco Hellman |
F. Warren Hellman (July 25, 1934 – December 18, 2011) was an American private equity investor and co-founder of Hellman & Friedman, a multibillion-dollar private equity firm. Hellman also co-founded Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates, today known as Matrix Partners. He started and funded the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival. Hellman died on December 18, 2011 of complications from his treatment for leukemia.
Hellman was born to a Jewish family in New York and spent his early childhood in Manhattan, the son of Ruth (née Koshland) and Marco "Mick" Hellman. During World War II, his family moved to Vacaville, California where his father served as a Major in the Army and his mother worked as a Women Airforce Service Pilot, flying military planes from aircraft factories to bases. After the war, they moved to San Francisco where he graduated from Lowell High School. In 1955, he graduated from University of California, Berkeley and in 1959, he graduated with an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
After school, he worked in investment banking at Lehman Brothers becoming a partner at age 26, the youngest in the firm's history. In 1973, he was named president and head of investment banking. and also head of the Investment Banking Division and Chairman of Lehman Corporation. In 1977, he moved to Boston and co-founded with Paul J. Ferri a venture capital firm, Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates (later renamed Matrix Partners), an early-stage investor in SanDisk and Apple. In 1984, he moved back to San Francisco and co-founded the buyout firm, Hellman & Friedman with Tully Friedman where he served as chairman of the firm as well as a member of the Firm's Investment and Compensation Committees.
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