Michael Psaros

Michael Psaros is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of KPS Capital Partners, LP (“KPS”), and a member of its Investment Committee and Management Committee. KPS is the manager of KPS Special Situations Funds, a family of private equity funds with approximately $13.6 billion of assets under management (as of June 30, 2022) focused on making controlling equity investments in manufacturing and industrial companies across a diverse array of industries, including basic materials, branded consumer, healthcare and luxury products, automotive parts, capital equipment and general manufacturing.

Mr. Psaros and the Partners of KPS have successfully developed and executed a proprietary investment strategy of creating new companies to acquire assets or businesses from large corporations, businesses owned by families or entrepreneurs, and businesses presented for sale in connection with financial restructurings, including companies owned by former creditor groups. KPS then transforms these businesses into independent, world-class, industry-leading enterprises by structurally improving their strategic position, competitiveness and profitability.

The KPS Funds’ portfolio companies generate aggregate annual revenues of approximately $21.6 billion, operate 232 manufacturing facilities in 27 countries, and have approximately 53,000 employees, directly and through joint ventures worldwide (as of June 30, 2022, pro forma for recent acquisitions and exits).

Mr. Psaros currently serves on the Board of Directors of the following KPS portfolio companies: Autokiniton Global Group (Chairman), Briggs & Stratton (Chairman), Eviosys (Chairman), Lufkin Industries (Chairman), Primient (Chairman), Speira (Chairman), AM General, C&D Technologies, Howden, Hussey Copper, Life Fitness, Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope and IKG. In addition, Mr. Psaros previously served on the Board of Directors of 32 former KPS portfolio companies.

Prior to joining its predecessor in 1991 and creating KPS in 1997, Mr. Psaros was an investment banker with Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc.

He received a B.S.B.A. in Finance from Georgetown University and attended Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan.

Mr. Psaros serves on the Board of Directors of Georgetown University. He also serves as the Vice Chairman of the Executive Board of Advisors of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Mr. Psaros and his spouse created “The Michael and Robin Psaros Endowed Chair in Business Administration” at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business in 2013. Mr. Psaros and his Family created the “The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Endowed Orthodox Chaplaincy, Endowed by the Michael Psaros Family” in 2021.