Tim Collins (financier)

Tim Collins (financier)

Timothy C. Collins, born 1956, is the founder, senior managing director, and chief executive officer of Ripplewood Holdings LLC.He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Citigroup.

Collins was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, and raised in Fostoria, Ohio. He has a B.A. degree in Philosophy from DePauw University (1978), where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta Indiana Zeta chapter, and an MBA from Yale School of Management. He was also a delegate at the 2010, 2011, and 2012 Bilderberg Group Conference held in Spain, Switzerland, and Chantilly, Virginia. This group consists of an assembly of notable politicians, industrialists and financiers who meet annually to discuss issues on a non-disclosure basis.

He began his career in finance, marketing, and manufacturing at Cummins Engine Company. From 1981 to 1984, he worked with the management consulting firm of Booz & Company, specializing in strategic and operational assignments with major industrial and financial firms. He became a vice president at Lazard Frères in New York, then managed Onex Corporation’s New York office.

Collins was named one of the “25 Stars of Asia: Leaders at the Forefront of Change” by BusinessWeek magazine in 2004.

Collins is a director of several public companies as well as some of Ripplewood’s private portfolio companies. He is involved in several not-for-profit and public sector activities, including the U.S.-Japan Business Council, the Trilateral Commission, the U.S.-Japan Private Sector/Government Commission, Yale Divinity School advisory board, Yale School of Management board of advisors, American Friends of the British Museum, Yaddo, the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, Trout Unlimited, and Lenox Hill Neighborhood House and the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. His managing partners are Lawrence Lavine, Harris Williams and Michael C. Duran.