Stanley Golder
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Stanley C. Golder (died January 5, 2000) was an American financier, venture capitalist.[1][2]
He is the namesake of the Stanley C. Golder Center for the Study of Private Equity at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,[1] which he graduated (B.S., 1951).[2]
His early jobs were with First National Bank of Chicago and its affiliates, promoted up to executive vice president. In early 1970s he was made president of First Capital Corporation of Chicago and First Chicago Investment Corporation. [2]
In 1980 he left First Chicago to found "Golder, Thoma & Cressey" private equity investment company, later GTCR, from which he retired as partner in 1993, but remained consultant.[2]
Stanley Golder was married to Joan Jacobi Golder.[2]
He was president of the Chicago chapter of the American Jewish Committee[3]
In 1994 the Golders received the Human Rights Medallion from the American Jewish Committee.[2]
Among Golders' charitable deeds was a $1.5 million gift to the UIUC to endow the Stanley C. and Joan J. Golder Distinguished Chair in Corporate Finance. [2]
Stanley Golder died of cancer at Evanston Hospital.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Q&A column, an interview of Michael Weisbach, Finance professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about Stanley Golder, M&A Advisor, November 30, 2007
- ^ a b c d e f g Stanley C. Golder, a donor profile at the UIUC website
- ^ a b "Stanley Golder, venture capitalist", an obituary by Stephanie Zimmermann, Chicago Sun-Times, January 10, 2000.
