Silver Lake Associate + Senior Associate Profiles

Went through Associate/Senior Associate profiles on Silver Lake's website. This is the list of their school/bank/group. Seems to be very pedigree focused.  

- Cornell, Evercore M&A tech group

- Wharton, JPM Tech

- Middlebury, GS TMT

- Harvard, BX REPE

- UC Berkeley, Deloitte FAS

- UC Berkeley, GS TMT 

- UC Berkeley, Ares 

- Harvard, MS LevFin

- Wharton, GS TMT 

- UChicago, Lazard M&A tech group 

- Stanford, GS TMT

- Dartmouth, Qatalyst 

- Yale, BAML M&A

- Harvard, MS media and comms

- Cornell, MS tech

- UVA, CS Sponsors 

- USC, Tech M&A Rothschild 

- Wharton, Evercore M&A Tech 

- Wharton, CS LevFin

- UVA, Alpine Investors

- Stanford, Altamont 

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Well I mean Thoma Bravo, a MF, is slightly less pedigree focused: 

Thoma Bravo Associates + Senior Associates

- Stanford, MS Tech

- Yale, UBS TMT 

- WashU St. Louis, Moelis M&A

- BYU, Citi Tech

- Notre Dame, CS and Accel-KKR

- UC Berkeley, Moelis M&A

- Wharton, Citi Media and Comms 

- Wharton, Citi Media and Comms and Silver Lake 

- Elon University, Moelis M&A

- Duke, MS Tech 

- UChicago CS Tech

- UC Berkeley, GS TMT

- BYU, Lazard RX

- Dartmouth, MS Media and Comms 

- Colorado Boulder, MS Media and comms

- Wharton, GS TMT 

- Stanford, Baml M&A

- BU, Battery Ventures

- Princeton, Evercore Tech M&A  

- Amherst, PJT and Audax

- UC Berkeley, MS Healthcare

- Yale, William Blair and Marlin Equity 

- Notre Dame, CS industrials

- Princeton, CS industrials and Golden Gate capital 

- UT Austin, Evercore M&A

- Northwestern, Greenhill M&A

- Middleburry, UBS sponsors/levfin

- Princeton, MS FIG

- Columbia, BAML and Oak Hill 

- Vanderbilt, GS FIG 

- A few others

 

For the associates/senior associates at our UMM fund:

~50% went to Ivies. Couple others went to targets like UChicago and Georgetown. Remainder is mostly semi-targets and then there are a few non-targets.

40% worked at GS/MS or EVR/LAZ/MOE types. Slightly smaller proportion from mid-tier BBs (BofA/Barclays/CS/Citi) and then remainder from some lower BBs/PE laterals.

For most larger funds, you'll find that juniors with pedigreed backgrounds are more common than not...as one might expect

 

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