David Bonderman

$7.44B

as of 12/11/24

About David Bonderman

David Bonderman is chairman and founding partner of private equity giant TPG, which manages some $220 billion in assets.

"Bondo" met his longtime business partner Jim Coulter while working for billionaire Robert Bass. The pair left in 1992 to found TPG.

Their first big deal was a $66 million investment in faltering Continental Airlines, which ultimately made them a $640 million profit.

Together the two are still principal owners of TPG; Bonderman operates from Fort Worth and Coulter from San Francisco.

In 1995 he created the Bonderman Travel Fellowship at the U.of Wash., sponsoring fellows to travel to at least 6 countries for 8 months.

A supporter of conservation, he is a board member of The Wilderness Society.

Both Coulter and Bonderman sit on the founding board of the Rise Fund, TPG's impact investing fund.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Private equity

Birth date

11/27/42

Number of children

Education

Doctor of Jurisprudence, Harvard University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Washington

Self-made

self-made

David Bonderman’s fortune is worth

124K

troy ounces of gold

114K

median U.S. household

74K

median U.S. income

0.149%

U.S. credit card volume

0.03%

GDP of the United States

0.022%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Bonderman studied Islamic law in Egypt and Tunis, and published an article for the Harvard Law Review titled "Modernization and Changing Perceptions of Islamic Law."