Michael H. Lustbader

Michael H. Lustbader is a Managing Partner at Arlington Capital Partners and shares overall responsibilities for all management and investment activities of the firm. Mr. Lustbader joined upon Arlington’s formation in 1999. He is responsible for Arlington’s government services investments and shares responsibility for the firm’s software and business services investments. Mr. Lustbader has over 20 years of private equity and merger and acquisition transactional experience having been involved in approximately 50 transactions. Prior to Arlington, Mr. Lustbader worked at Lazard Frères & Co. based out of New York in the Telecommunications and Technology practice, where he focused on advising corporate clients on mergers and acquisitions. His transaction experience includes MCI Communications’ $43 billion mergers with WorldCom—which at one point was the largest non-bank transaction of all-time—and 360 Communications’ $6 billion mergers with ALLTEL Corporation. While at Lazard, he also executed a number of transactions in IT services, including Cap Gemini/Beechwood, Intelligent Electronics/Xerox Corporation, and GE Capital Consulting/Metamor Worldwide.

Mr. Lustbader received an A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard College.