Paul Carbone

Paul Carbone is the Co-Founder and President of Pritzker Private Capital. Paul also chairs the PPC Management and Investment Committees and has a particular focus on advancing the development of the family capital industry and PPC’s relationships with the market’s premier family groups. From 2012 to 2022 Paul was President and Managing Partner of Pritzker Private Capital and its predecessor. For the prior 13 years, Paul was the Director and Managing Partner of the Private Equity Group of Robert W. Baird & Co., which makes venture capital, growth equity and buyout investments in smaller, high‐potential companies in the US, Europe and Asia. Prior to 1999, Paul was the Co‐Director of Investment Banking responsible for Robert W. Baird & Co.’s Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory practice. Prior to joining Robert W. Baird & Co. in 1994, Paul was Senior Vice President in the Investment Banking Group at Kidder, Peabody & Co.

Paul serves on the board of directors of the University of Chicago Medical Center (Executive Committee and Chair of the Finance and Investment Committee), The Art Institute of Chicago (Executive Committee and Chair of the Investment Committee), and Hartwick College. He also advises the Misericordia Endowment Fund and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and the Economic Club of Chicago.

In 2016, Paul received the Stanley C. Golder Award from the Illinois Venture Capital Association in recognition of his contributions to the private equity industry in Illinois. Paul has served as an EY Entrepreneur of the Year regional judge as well as national judge for the Family Business category. In 2020 and 2022, Family Capital magazine named Paul one of the Top 100 most influential people among family investors and family enterprises.

Paul is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of The College of the University of Chicago. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School.