Bruce Hardy McLain (born September 1952) is an American retired hedge fund manager, and a co-founder and former managing partner of

CVC Capital Partners CVC Capital Partners is a Luxembourg-based French private equity and investment advisory firm with approximately US$133 billion of assets under management and approximately €157 billion in secured commitments since inception across American, E ...

Early life

Bruce Hardy McLain was born in September 1952, in San Francisco, US. McLain earned a bachelor's degree in economics and public policy from

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

, North Carolina, followed by an MBA in finance and marketing from

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

, California.

Career

In December 2012, McLain retired after 25 years with CVC. McLain has been a non-executive director of

Samsonite International Samsonite International S.A. () is an American premium luggage manufacturer and retailer, with products ranging from large suitcases to small toiletries bags and briefcases. The company was founded in Denver, Colorado, United States. Its regis ...

since June 2014, and Formula One, the Colomer Group and the Lecta Group.

Personal life

McLain lives in London with his wife Helle and six children. In May 2017, he gave £100,000 to the Conservative Party. In May 2020 he donated another £50,000 to the Tories.

References

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