Gerald Schwartz
$1.51B
$11.1M (-0.7%)
as of 09/27/24
About Gerald Schwartz
Gerald Schwartz is the founder and chairman of Onex, one of Canada's largest private equity firms, which he ran for 39 years before stepping down in May 2023.
He got his start working with buyout legends Jerome Kohlberg, Henry Kravis and George Roberts at Bear Stearns in the 1970s.
The Americans left to start KKR in 1976; Schwartz went home to Canada and cofounded the media company CanWest in 1977.
In 1984 he started Onex, which now has $50 billion in assets under management and offices in London, Toronto and the U.S.
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CanadaSource of wealth
FinanceResidence
Toronto, CanadaMarital status
MarriedBirth date
11/24/41 (age 82)Number of children
4Education
Master of Business Administration, Harvard UniversitySelf-made
self-madeGerald Schwartz’s fortune is worth
25K
troy ounces of gold
23K
median U.S. household
15K
median U.S. income
0.03%
U.S. credit card volume
0.006%
GDP of the United States
0.004%
United States debt
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Financial assets
NYSE | CLS-US
Celestica, Inc.TORONTO | IDG-CA
Indigo Books and Music, Inc.TORONTO | ONEX-CA
Onex Corp. (Canada)TORONTO | ONEX-CA
Onex Corp. (Canada)TORONTO | ONEX-CA
Onex Corp. (Canada)TORONTO | ONEX-CA
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