Lee Ainslie

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Lee Ainslie
Born
Lee S. Ainslie III

1964 (age 59–60) [1]
Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
Alma mater
Known forFounding Maverick Capital
Title
Board member of Robin Hood Foundation
SpouseElizabeth
Children2

Lee S. Ainslie III (born 1964) is an American businessman who founded the hedge fund firm Maverick Capital. [2] [3] He is also a board member of the Robin Hood Foundation and owns a minority stake in the Washington Commanders of the National Football League.

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Early life and education

Ainslie's father was headmaster of Episcopal High School, a private school in Alexandria, Virginia, from which Ainslie graduated. [4] Ainslie holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kenan–Flagler Business School. [5] [6]

Career

Prior to founding Maverick Capital in 1993, Ainslie worked at Tiger Management, where he and other former employees had been nicknamed "Tiger Cubs" in the hedge fund industry. [5] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] Ainslie helped form Maverick Capital in 1993 at the invitation of billionaire Sam Wyly. [12] [13] Maverick Capital was reported to have $9 billion under management in 2013. [14] [15]

Ainslie has been profiled in books such as Hedge Hunters, by Katherine Burton, [16] New Investment Superstars by Lois Peltz. [17] and The Big Win by Stephen Weiss. [18]

Ainslie supported Mitt Romney in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. [19] [20] He is on the board of directors of the Robin Hood Foundation. [21] [22] In 2023, Ainslie was a part of an investment group led by Josh Harris that purchased the Washington Commanders, an American football team belonging to the National Football League, for $6.05 billion. [23] [24] The deal was the highest price ever paid for a sports team. [25]

Personal life

He and his wife Elizabeth have two sons. [26]

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References

  1. ↑ "PORTFOLIO-MANAGER MIT 14 – LEE AINSLIE". Traderfox. 19 September 2018. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  2. ↑ McKinsey & Co. Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance. Chapter 6. John Wiley and Sons, 2011. ISBN   0470424605, ISBN   978-0470424605.
  3. ↑ "Ainslie's Maverick Cap backfires in August," Reuters, September 11, 2011
  4. ↑ "Comeback Kid," Institutional Investor, December 19, 2007
  5. 1 2 "Maverick Capital Ltd.", Bloomberg Businessweek
  6. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-05. Retrieved 2013-04-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ↑ "Lee S. Ainslie III," [ dead link ] Bloomberg Businessweek (profile)
  8. ↑ "Institutional Investor". Institutional Investor. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  9. ↑ "A calm exterior: Face to Face with Lee Ainslie," Pensions & Investments, June 11, 2007
  10. ↑ "Tiger Management Helps Next-Generation Funds," The New York Times, July 30, 2012
  11. ↑ "The Lone Star State attracts plenty of financial whizzkids," The Economist, July 30, 2011
  12. ↑ "Comeback Kid," Institutional Investor, December 19, 2007
  13. ↑ "The World's Billionaires," Forbes, March 5, 2008
  14. ↑ "Hedge Funds Trail Stocks by the Widest Margin Since 2005," Bloomberg, December 6, 2013
  15. ↑ "The Top 10 Hedge Funds to Watch in 2013," Worth magazine
  16. ↑ Burton, Katherine. Hedge Hunters . Chapter 6. John Wiley and Sons, 2010. ISBN   0-470-88518-1, ISBN   978-0-470-88518-5.
  17. ↑ Peltz, Lois. New Investment Superstars . Chapter 5. John Wiley and Sons, 2001. ISBN   047140313X, ISBN   978-0471403135
  18. ↑ Weiss, Stephen. The Big Win . Chapter 5. John Wiley and Sons, 2012. ISBN   0470916109, ISBN   978-0470916100
  19. ↑ "Meet Mitt Romney's Hedge Fund Backers," Institutional Investor, October 12, 2012
  20. ↑ "Mitt Romney shifts campaign focus back to the economy," The Christian Science Monitor, September 14, 2012
  21. ↑ "About," robinhood.org.
  22. ↑ "The legend of Robin Hood," Fortune magazine, September 8, 2006
  23. ↑ Maske, Mark; Jhabvala, Nicki (July 20, 2023). "NFL owners approve sale of Commanders from Daniel Snyder to Josh Harris". The Washington Post . Retrieved July 21, 2023.
  24. ↑ "Josh Harris Announces Acquisition of Washington Commanders" (Press release). Washington Commanders. July 21, 2023. Retrieved July 21, 2023.
  25. ↑ Jhabvala, Nicki (July 20, 2023). "The Commanders sale was so complicated, it was 'like 20 deals in one'". The Washington Post . Retrieved July 23, 2023.
  26. ↑ Capitalize for Kids Investors Conference 2014 (biography)

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