| Lynn Tilton | |
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Speaking at Horasis Annual Meeting 2011 |
Lynn Tilton is an American trader, investor and industrialist. Tilton is Chief Executive Officer and sole principal of Patriarch Partners, LLC and its affiliated entities, a private equity firm managing US$7 billion in assets. She is also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MD Helicopters Inc., a manufacturer of commercial and military helicopters.
Tilton has a BA degree in American Studies from Yale University and an MBA degree in Finance from Columbia University. She began her career at Morgan Stanley in 1981. She also worked for Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch as an investment banker until 1989. Prior to founding Patriarch Partners, Tilton was an executive at Long Drive Management Trust, a special situations investment fund, and Executive Managing Director of Papillon Partners, Inc., a firm which she founded to offer customized research, valuation and execution services to sellers of bank loans and high yield bonds.
Lynn Tilton recently appeared on a 20/20 special with Barbara Walters, and she appears periodically on CNBC and is an occasional contributor to the Huffington Post.