Carl Ludwig Oliver Haarmann (born September 1967) is a German

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financier, and a founding partner of

Searchlight Capital Partners Searchlight Capital Partners is a private equity firm. Searchlight Capital was established in 2010 by Eric Zinterhofer, Oliver Haarmann, and Erol Uzumeri, its founding partners. It has offices in New York, Conduit Street, London and Toronto. ...

Early life

Oliver Haarmann was born in September 1967. He earned a bachelor's degree in history and international relations from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

in 1990, and an

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from

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

in 1996.

Career

Haarmann was managing director and partner at

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts KKR & Co. Inc., also known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., is an American global investment company that manages multiple alternative asset classes, including private equity, energy, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and, through its strate ...

(KKR). In June 2007, ''

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'' reported that only one of KKR's (then taking over

Alliance Boots Alliance Boots GmbH was a multinational pharmacy-led health and beauty group with corporate headquarters in Bern, Switzerland and operational headquarters in Nottingham and Weybridge, United Kingdom. The company had a presence in over 27 countr ...

) eight London-based partners (not Haarmann) was tax-domiciled in the UK. Searchlight Capital was established in 2010 by

Eric Zinterhofer Eric Louis Zinterhofer (born August 1971) is an American private equity financier, and a founding partner of Searchlight Capital Partners. Early life Eric Zinterhofer was born in August 1971. He is the son of Dr Louis J. M. Zinterhofer and Susan A ...

, Haarmann, and Erol Uzumeri, its founding partners. Haarmann is a director of

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and Hunter Boot. He is a trustee of

, the Surgo Foundation ,

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, and Art Angel.

Personal life

Haarmann was married to fellow private equity businesswoman

Mala Gaonkar Mala Gopal Gaonkar (born November 1969) is an American businesswoman, and the co-portfolio manager at investment firm Lone Pine Capital. Early life Gaonkar was born in November 1969 in the US and mostly raised in Bangalore, India. She earned a d ...

. They have two sons.

References

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