John Adam Kanas

Currently a Senior Advisor and Vice Chairman at the Carlyle Group, John Adam Kanas spent over 30 years at the helm of his first company, North Fork Bank, which he sold to Capital One for just under $15 billion in 2006. He was then tapped by FDIC Chair, Sheila Bair, to assist with the government’s response to the 2008 financial crisis, organizing a group of investors to recapitalize BankUnited, a regional bank on the verge of collapse. Just three years later, Kanas took the company public in a $783 million IPO. When he stepped down as CEO in 2017, the bank’s assets had more than doubled to over $26 billion. In December 2019, Kanas joined States Title Holding, Inc. as a Senior Advisor.