Tully Friedman | |
Birth Name: | Tully Michael Friedman |
Nationality: | American |
Education: | Stanford University Harvard University |
Occupation: | Businessman, investor, philanthropist |
Employer: | Friedman, Fleischer and Lowe |
Spouse: | Anne Fay (divorced) Elise Dorsey |
Tully Friedman (born January 1942) is an American businessman.[1] [2] [3] [4] A founding partner of Hellman & Friedman,[3] as of 2013 he was chief executive of Friedman, Fleischer and Lowe, a San Francisco-based private equity firm.
He graduated from Stanford University and received a J.D. from the Harvard Law School.[1] [2] [3]
He was managing director of Salomon Brothers, where he founded its West Coast Corporate Finance Department and served on its national Corporate Finance Administrative Committee.[3] [4]
In 1984, he and Warren Hellman founded Hellman & Friedman, an investment company.[3]
Since 1997, he has served as chairman and CEO of Friedman Fleischer & Lowe, a private equity firm.[1] [2] [3] [4]
He sits on the boards of Clorox, Kool Smiles, NCDR, Church's Chicken, Cajun Operating Company, Archimedes Technology, and DPMS LLC.[1] [2] He previously served on the Boards of CapitalSource, Levi Strauss & Co., Mattel, and McKesson Corporation.[1] [2] [3] [4] He is a former president of the San Francisco Opera Association and chairman of Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center.[3] He is also chairman of the board of trustees of the American Enterprise Institute.[5] He also sits on the board of trustees of the Telluride Foundation in Telluride, Colorado.[3] [6] and St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. [7]
His first wife was Ann Fay Barry, niece of Paul B. Fay, Jr.[8] [9] In 1995, he married Elise Dorsey in an Episcopal ceremony in Sonoma, California.[10] They have two children, Alexander and Allegra. [11] Until November 2012, Friedman owned a neo-classical-style home in Woodside, California that was featured in the book, "Extraordinary Homes California: an Exclusive Showcase of the Finest Architects, Designers and Builders in California."[12] [13]