F. Warren Hellman
Chairman, Hellman & Friedman LLC

F. Warren Hellman is the Chairman of Hellman & Friedman LLC, a private equity firm based in San Francisco with additional offices in New York and London. The firm, which he co-founded in 1984, is currently investing its sixth fund, Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners VI, L.P., with over $8 billion of committed capital. Through its 23 year history, Hellman & Friedman has raised and managed more than $16 billion in capital. Hellman & Friedman's objective is to invest long-term equity capital to support the strategic and financial objectives of outstanding management teams operating businesses with defensible positions in growing markets.

From 1977 to 1982, Mr. Hellman was a general partner of Boston-based venture capital firm Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates. From 1982 to 1985 he was a general partner of Matrix Partners (the successor to Hellman, Ferri). From 1962 to 1977, Mr. Hellman was a partner at Lehman Brothers in New York, where he served as head of Lehman's Investment Banking Division and president and director of Lehman Brothers.

Mr. Hellman is a director of various public and private companies including Levi Strauss & Co.; D.N. & E. Walter & Co.; Sugar Bowl Corporation and others.

Mr. Hellman's civic and philanthropic activities include serving as past Chairman and current trustee emeritus of The San Francisco Foundation; Co-Chair of the Governor's Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth and Member of the Governor's Council of Economic Advisors; member of the Advisory Board of the Walter A. Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley; trustee of the UC Berkeley Foundation, trustee emeritus of The Brookings Institution; board member of the Committee on JOBS; board member of the S.F. Chamber of Commerce and Bay Area Council; Chairman, Voice of Dance; and board member of salesforce.com/foundation. In 2005, Mr. Hellman was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Mr. Hellman twice completed the Western States Endurance Run, a 100-mile foot race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, and five times completed the Tevis Cup, a 100-mile horse race over the same course. He is also a five-time age group national champion in Ride and Tie (combination of cross-country running and endurance horseback riding). He lettered at UC Berkeley in Water Polo. He is also a 5 string banjo player and is the Founder and Principal sponsor of the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

Mr. Hellman is a graduate of the University of California in Berkeley (1955) and Harvard Business School (1959).