American businessman
Jonathan Scott Lavine (born May 9, 1966) is an American businessman, co-managing partner of
Bain Capital , and chief investment officer of
Bain Capital Credit , which he founded in 1997 as Sankaty Advisors, a division of Bain Capital. Lavine is also a philanthropist, and the co-chair of the
Board of Trustees of Columbia University .
[1]
Early life and education
Jonathan Lavine was born in
Providence, Rhode Island and graduated from
Classical High School in 1984. Lavine then attended
Columbia College , where he was elected to
Phi Beta Kappa and earned a
BA
magna cum laude in 1988.
[2]
In 1992, Lavine earned an
MBA from
Harvard Business School .
[3]
Personal life
Lavine married Jeannie Diane Bachelor in June 1992 at Temple B’nai Abraham in
Livingston, New Jersey .
[4] They have two children, Allie and Emily and reside in
Lexington, Massachusetts .
[5]
Career
Lavine began his career as an analyst at Drexel Burnham Lambert upon his graduation in 1988. From 1991-1993, he worked as a consultant for
McKinsey & Company
[6] until moving on to Bain Capital. In 1997, Lavine founded Sankaty Advisors, LLC as the credit affiliate of Bain Capital and was managing partner and chief investment officer of the firm.
[7] Sankaty was renamed Bain Capital Credit in 2016.
[8]
[7]
In 2016, Bain Capital named Lavine co-managing partner of the firm. Lavine continued to lead Bain Capital Credit after becoming co-managing partner of Bain Capital.
[8]
On December 6, 2016, President
Barack Obama named Lavine to be a member of the
United States Holocaust Memorial Council .
[9]
In 2008, Lavine also became a member of the
Boston Celtics ownership group,
[10]
Boston Basketball Partners LLC .
Philanthropy
Lavine has been on the board of several organizations and educational institutions, including
City Year ,
[11]
Boston Children's Hospital ,
[12] the
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ,
[13]
Columbia University ,
[14] Horizons for Homeless Children,
[15] and Opportunity Nation.
[16]
In 2007, the Lavines formed the Crimson Lion Foundation, a private family foundation through which they have concentrated their philanthropic activities.
[17]
Lavine has donated to a number of organizations and institutions, including
City Year ,
[18]
Harvard University ,
[19]
Harvard Business School ,
[20] LIFT Communities,
[21]
Equal Justice Initiative ,
[22] and public radio station
WBUR ,
[23] and the
U.S. Holocaust Museum .
[24] His two largest donations were $10M to City Year in 2012,
[11] and $12.5M to Harvard Business School in 2017.
[20]
References
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"Jonathan Lavine | Office of the Secretary of the University" . secretary.columbia.edu . Retrieved 2021-09-22 .
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"Jonathan Lavine" . Office of the Secretary of the University . Columbia University. Retrieved 19 April 2013 .
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"Keynote Speakers" . Wharton Restructuring Club. Retrieved 17 April 2013 .
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"WEDDINGS; Jeanne Bachelor, Jonathan S. Lavine" . The New York Times .
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"Jonathan Lavine" . New England ADL . newengland.adl.org. Retrieved 1 March 2016 .
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"Jonathan Lavine" . Profile on Sankaty.com . Sankaty Advisors. Archived from
the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2013 .
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b Banerjee, Devin (7 April 2016).
"Bain Capital Promotes Four, Renames Hedge Fund, Credit Units" . Bloomberg . Retrieved 15 November 2018 .
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b KREUTZER, Laura.
"Bain Capital Rebrands Credit Affiliate, Public Equity Unit" . WSJ.com . The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 27 April 2016 .
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"Press Release - President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts | The American Presidency Project" . www.presidency.ucsb.edu . Retrieved 2021-07-14 .
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"Celtics Owners Use Financial Background In Team's Management" . SportsBusiness Daily. Archived from
the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2013 .
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"The City Year Story" (PDF) . Profile . City Year. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 5 May 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2013 .
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"Boston Children's Hospital Trust: Board of Trustees" . Who Supports Boston Children's . Boston Children's Hospital. Archived from
the original on 24 April 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2013 .
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"Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. Members of the Board of Trustees" (PDF) . Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 8 June 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2013 .
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"Campus News | Columbia College Today" . www.college.columbia.edu . Retrieved 2018-11-14 .
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"Jonathan Lavine" . Profile . Opportunity Nation. Retrieved 19 April 2013 .
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"Leadership Circle | Be The Change, Inc" . Be The Change, Inc . Retrieved 2017-04-07 .
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"Jonathan Lavine" . Profile . Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved 18 April 2013 .
^ Year, City.
"City Year Launches Ten-Year Strategy To Build The Nation's Urban Graduation Pipeline" . www.prnewswire.com . Retrieved 2017-04-27 .
^ Powell, Alvin.
"A training lifeline for rescuers" . Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 15 April 2013 .
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"Business School Expands Financial Aid Opportunities | News | The Harvard Crimson" . www.thecrimson.com . Retrieved 2018-01-17 .
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"[News Release] LIFT Launches The Lavine Family Innovation Fund – LIFT" . www.liftcommunities.org . Retrieved 2018-01-17 .
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"Bain Capital exec gives $1 mil to anti-incarceration nonprofit - The Boston Globe" . Retrieved 2016-07-05 .
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"WBUR gets record $5 million donation for its cultural events center - The Boston Globe" . BostonGlobe.com . Retrieved 2018-11-15 .
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"Museum Opens New Exhibition "Americans and the Holocaust" — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum" . www.ushmm.org . Retrieved 2018-11-15 .