Jim Coulter

James (“Jim”) Coulter is the Executive Chairman and a Founding Partner of TPG and the co-Managing Partner of The Rise Fund. Coulter and his partners at TPG worked with co-founders Bono and Jeff Skoll to create The Rise Fund in 2016, and as a member of the Founders Board has been intimately involved in developing and leading its work since its inception. TPG, founded in 1992, is a leading private investment firm managing in excess of $120 billion in assets. TPG is based in San Francisco and Fort Worth and has 12 offices around the world. TPG has been a lead equity investor in more than 200 companies. Mr. Coulter is a 1982 Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College. In 1986, Mr. Coulter received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was named an Arjay Miller Scholar.