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J. Christopher Flowers
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Investments
- Industry
- Finance & Investments
- Residence
- Palm Beach, Florida
- Organization
- Founder and Managing Director at J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC
- Education
- Harvard University (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 2
Assets
- Encore Capital Group Inc.718,000 shares @ --ECPG-US
- Enstar Group Ltd.45,000 shares @ --ESGR-US
Biography
J. Christopher Flowers runs private equity firm J.C. Flowers & Co., which focuses on the financial services sector.
Flowers studied math at Harvard and then joined Goldman Sachs in 1979, becoming a partner in 1988.
He struck out on his own a decade later and in 2000 bought a beleaguered Japanese bank, Long Term Credit Bank, which had been nationalized in 1998.
He resold the business to the public under the moniker Shinsei Bank in 2004; the partners reaped $2.3 billion.
In 2008, he helped advise Bank of America and Merrill Lynch on their merger.
About
Flowers joined board of directors for the Kasparov Chess Foundation, named for legendary chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, in 2015.
During his college years, Flowers wrote for the Harvard Crimson.