Chase Coleman III

Chase Coleman III
Born Charles Payson Coleman
1974/1975 (age 40–41)[1]
Residence Upper East Side, New York City, U.S.
Nationality American
Education Deerfield Academy
Alma mater Williams College
Occupation Managing partner, Tiger Global Management
Net worth US$2.3 billion (January 2016)[1]
Spouse(s) Stephanie Ercklentz
Parent(s) C. Payson Coleman, Jr.
Kim Payson

Charles Payson "Chase" Coleman III (born 1974/75) is an American hedge fund manager from New York City. He serves as the managing partner of Tiger Global Management. He was an early investor in Facebook, and he has made significant political contributions to the Republican Party. He is a descendant of the last Dutch governor of New York.

Early life

He was born in 1974/75.[1] He grew up in Glen Head, Long Island.[2]

His father, C. Payson Coleman, Jr., born in 1950,[3] is a partner at the New York law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, and his mother, Kim Payson, owned an interior design firm.[4][5]

His grandfather was Charles Payson Coleman, who was managing partner of the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell until his death in 1982. He was married to Louise Stuyvesant Wainwright, aka Mimi C. Thompson, (died 1996), a direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Governor who surrendered New Amsterdam to the English, after which it was renamed New York, and who built the wall around what is now Wall Street, for which it is named.[6][7]

Coleman was educated at the Deerfield Academy.[2] He graduated from Williams College in 1997, where he was on the lacrosse team.[1][2] At Williams, Coleman studied Spanish and Economics.[8]

Career

He started his career in 1997, working for Julian Robertson and his hedge fund, Tiger Management.[1][2] Coleman had grown up with Robertson’s son, Spencer, who lived close to Glen Head, in Locust Valley.[2]

In 2000, Robertson closed his fund, and entrusted Coleman with over $25 million to manage, making him one of the 30 or more so-called "Tiger Cubs", fund managers who started their fund management careers with Tiger Management.[2] Fellow Williams graduate Ole Andreas Halvorsen, one of the world's wealthiest hedge fund managers, is another former "Tiger Cub," amongst other very successful hedge fund managers such as Stephen Mandel and Lee Ainslie.[8]

Coleman serves as managing partner of Tiger Global Management. The hedge fund was an early investor in Facebook, and sold its stake in 2013 for an estimated $1 billion.[9] The venture capital section of Tiger Global is key to the firm's success. Much of this success is attributable to investments in the technology sector, especially in areas like private Internet companies such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Zynga, as well as investments across global markets.[2][10] In January 2015, Coleman introduced Tiger Global Internet Opportunities, which specifically focuses on investments in the Internet, and has already grown to an estimated $2.3 billion after beginning with $700 million in capital.[10] In June 2015, Tiger Global's hedge fund manager of many years and former partner of Coleman, Feroz Dewan, left Tiger Global to start his own investment firm, a "major setback" for Coleman, according to Forbes.[11]

As of January 2016, he had a net worth of US $2.3 billion.[1] According to Business Insider, he was born into "old money" and has made a lot of "new money" as well.[12]

Political activity

He is a "major Republican Party donor".[9] For example, in 2012, he donated US $30,800 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and US $5,000 to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.[2]

Personal life

Coleman married Stephanie Ercklentz (the daughter of Enno Ercklentz Jr. and Mai Harrison) at Bethesda-by-the-Sea, Palm Beach, Florida, in 2005.[5] She was featured in the film, Born Rich, a 2003 documentary about growing up in the world's richest families.[13]

They reside on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.[13] In 2008, they bought an entire floor of a Fifth Avenue building from Veronica Hearst, the daughter-in-law of William Randolph Hearst, for US$36.5 million,[2] and have further homes on Long Island and in Palm Beach, Florida.[9]

According to Bloomberg, Coleman is notoriously publicity-shy and has refused to be photographed for any publication since his 2005 wedding photographed by the New York Social Diary.[5][7]

Coleman is co-chair of the Tiger Foundation and the investment committee of the Hospital for Special Surgery.[8] The Tiger Foundation was founded by Julian Robertson in 1989, and its stated mission is "striving to break the cycle of poverty in New York City."[14]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Chase Coleman, III.". Forbes. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Effinger, Anthony; Burton, Katherine; Levy, Ari (January 10, 2012). "Top Hedge Fund Returns 45% With Robertson's 36-Year-Old Disciple". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ David Marcus; Marie T. Finn; Marie T. Hough; Linda D. Estelle; Mindy Toomay; Nancy L. Jellison; Diana L. Richardson; Jeanie J. Clapp; Bernadette B. Grabb (1986). The American Bar, the Canadian Bar, the International Bar. R.B. Forster & Associates. p. 2198. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Tiger Global’s Chase Coleman: With This Reclusive Billionaire, Actions Speak Louder Than Words". Ibillionaire.me. June 2, 2014. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 "Hot & Cold". Newyorksocialdiary. January 25, 2005. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  6. ↑ Saxon, Wolfgang (October 15, 1996). "Mimi C. Thompson, 69, New York Volunteer and Philanthropist". The New York Times. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  7. 1 2 Effinger, Anthony; Burton, Katherine (January 9, 2015). "Why Photos of Some Hedge-Fund Managers Are So Hard to Find". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 "Chase Coleman – Tiger Global Management". Octafinance. May 19, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  9. 1 2 3 Pow, Helen (October 22, 2013). "'Born Rich'... and now richer: A decade after Johnson & Johnson heir lifted the lid on growing up with millions for an HBO documentary that got him sued, MailOnline looks at what the film's precocious stars are doing now". Daily Mail. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  10. 1 2 <"Chase Coleman — Tiger Global". Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  11. ↑ "#307 Chase Coleman, III.". Forbes. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  12. ↑ "The Fabulous Life Of Chase Coleman: The World's Most Profitable Hedge Funder In 2011". Business Insider. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  13. 1 2 Pressler, Jessica (January 5, 2011). "Chase Coleman’s Status Update: Rich". New York. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  14. ↑ "OUR HISTORY AND MISSION". Retrieved January 4, 2016.
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