Jonathan Stearns, 47, is the Managing Director of the Private Equity Group at AIG, since September 2006. Prior to this, he was a Managing Director since 2004, and was a founding member of Associated Partners, LLC, where he managed co-investment portfolios totaling $175 million for Abbott Capital, and rendered other advisory services and participated in the private equity fund investment program. Prior to 2004 he was a Managing Director of Abbott Capital Management, LLC, where since 2001 he was the head of a co-investment team responsible for direct investments in private companies. Mr. Stearns has also been a Managing Director and co-head of Equinox Investment Partners, LLC from 1996 to 2001, where he focused primarily on investing in private, middle-market companies. He previously spent several years in the private capital group of Kleinwort Benson Limited, ultimately as a Director with significant involvement in forming and raising capital for the $180 million KB Mezzanine Fund II, LP. Mr. Stearns received a BA from The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and completed graduate studies in political economics, with an emphasis on Japan, at Cornell University.
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