William Brian Little

William Brian Little (1942–2000), known as Brian Little, was one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm. He graduated from Colgate University in 1964, and he later served as the chairman of the Board of Trustees. An art building at Colgate was named Little Hall after him in 2001.

Brian Little worked as a Senior Vice President at White Weld & Co. in Los Angeles. He briefly continued to work at firm after it was acquired by Merrill Lynch in 1978, and in the same year founded Forstmann Little with brothers Ted and Nick Forstmann.

Little died in 2000 of a heart attack.


Private equity and venture capital investors
Investment strategy
  • Buyout
  • Venture
  • Growth
  • Mezzanine
  • Secondaries
History
  • History of private equity and venture capital
  • Early history of private equity
  • Private equity in the 1980s
  • Private equity in the 1990s
  • Private equity in the 2000s
Investor types
  • Private equity investors
  • Venture capitalists
  • Corporate raiders
Persondata
Name Little, William Brian
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Date of birth 1942
Place of birth
Date of death 2000
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