Gunnar S Overstrom is a Partner at Corsair Capital where he serves as a member of both the Investment Committee and the firm’s Management Committee. He joined Corsair in 2020 and has been involved with a number of the firm’s investments since 2014. He is a board member of Corsair portfolio companies First Eagle Holdings and Spring Ventures Group.
Prior to joining Corsair, Mr. Overstrom held a number of senior roles in the financial services and asset management industries. From 2001 to 2012, Mr. Overstrom was a Partner at Maverick Capital, where he was responsible for managing investments across the Financial and Business Services sectors and was a member of the firm’s Management Committee. After Maverick, Mr. Overstrom was the Founder and Managing Principal of Three Corner Global, a boutique hedge fund focused on investing globally in financials, business services, and adjacent sectors. In addition to his public markets investment experience, Mr. Overstrom has been involved in a number of successful private investments in high growth and emerging sectors within financial services. Prior to joining Maverick in 2001, Mr. Overstrom was a member of Morgan Stanley’s Financial Institutions Group in New York from 1994-2001, where he worked on many industry-leading mergers and acquisitions and capital raisings. While at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Overstrom also worked with the Corporate Office on strategy and M&A, reviewing potential acquisitions and mergers for the parent company. Mr. Overstrom started his career at Citigroup, where he went through the firm’s credit training program, and worked on real estate workouts and in the firm-wide strategy group.
Mr. Overstrom holds an M.B.A. from Cornell University, where he received the Wall Street Journal Award in recognition of outstanding achievement in finance and the A. Donald Kelso Award given to individuals who have contributed significantly to the achievement of the school, and a B.A. from Hobart College.