Timothy C. Collins
CEO & Senior Managing Director
Ripplewood Holdings LLC

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Timothy C. Collins is the senior managing director and chief executive officer of Ripplewood Holdings L.L.C. Mr. Collins founded Ripplewood in 1995. Previously, Mr. Collins managed Onex Corporation’s New York office. Ripplewood has done several of the largest private equity investments ever, including the acquisition of Shinsei, the former long-term credit bank. Shinsei was to date the most profitable private equity investment ever. Mr. Collins serves as a director and co-CEO of RHJ International, a publicly-listed diversified holding company headquartered in Brussels. Mr. Collins began his career as a member of the U.A.W. at Cummins Engine Company in 1974. Ripplewood has invested in Reader’s Digest, Japan Telecom, Aircell, Denon, The Commercial International Bank of Egypt and a broad array of companies around the world. Ripplewood has made investments in nearly a dozen industry groups, each with a rigidly defined strategy and led by an experienced industry executive (“Industrial Partner”). Ripplewood is unique in its depth of international experience.

Mr. Collins is a director of several public companies, a number of Ripplewood’s private portfolio companies and Weather Investments. He is involved in several not-for-profit and public sector activities, including the Trilateral Commission, Yale Divinity School Advisory Board, Yale School of Organization and Management Board of Advisors, American Friends of the British Museum, the board of overseers of the Weill Cornell Medical College and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Collins is also a trustee of the Carnegie Hall Society.

Mr. Collins has a B.A. degree in Philosophy from DePauw University and a M.B.A. in Public and Private Management from Yale University’s School of Organization and Management. Mr. Collins received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from his alma mater in 2004.