Stephen Berger

Co-Founder at Odyssey Investment Partners LLC

Stephen Berger

Stephen Berger

Co-Founder at Odyssey Investment Partners LLC

Overview

Career Highlights

State of New York Financial Control Board
The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (New York)
Financial Guaranty Insurance Co.

RelSci Relationships

2072

Number of Boards

14

Birthday

1941

Age

80

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William F. Hopkins

Co-Founder at Odyssey Investment Partners LLC

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Robert Aikman

Managing Principal at Odyssey Investment Partners LLC

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Brian Kwait

Co-Founder at Odyssey Investment Partners LLC

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Jason Cowett

Managing Principal at Odyssey Investment Partners LLC

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Douglas Hitchner

Managing Principal & Chief Operating Officer at Odyssey Investment Partners LLC

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Jeffrey McKibben

Senior Managing Principal at Odyssey Investment Partners LLC

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Randy E. Paulson

Executive Officer at Odyssey Professionals V LLC

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Douglas W. Rotatori

Executive Officer at Odyssey Professionals V LLC

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Brian Zaumeyer

Managing Principal at Odyssey Investment Partners LLC

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Kathryn Wylde

President & Chief Executive Officer at The Partnership for New York City

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February 25, 2021

Partnership for New York City: New York Business Leaders Join National Support for Biden Stimulus Package

CNN

January 4, 2021

More than 170 business leaders sign letter urging Congress to accept Biden's win

Targeted News Service

November 24, 2020

Partnership for New York City: 166 New York Business Leaders Send Open Letter on Presidential Transition

The New York Times

September 28, 2020

‘We’re at War’: New York City Faces a Financial Abyss

Crain's New York Business

June 29, 2020

Budget troubles; City and state officials contend with a dire future as New York reopens

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Stephen Berger

Co-Founder at Odyssey Investment Partners LLC

Education

BA in History, with Honors in History, magna cum laude

Class of 1959

Brandeis University

Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in Waltham, Massachusetts, 9 miles (14 km) west of Boston. The university has an enrollment of approximately 3,600 undergraduate and 2,200 graduate students.[4] It was tied for 32nd among national universities in the United States in U.S. News & World Report 's 2014 rankings. Forbes listed Brandeis University as number 51 among all national universities and liberal arts colleges combined in 2013. Brandeis was founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian Jewish community-sponsored coeducational institution on the site of the former Middlesex University. The university is named for Louis Brandeis (1856–1941), the first Jewish Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Department of Political Science

The University of Chicago

UCE’s Office of Investments is responsible for managing the University's investment assets, which includes overseeing the endowment to ensure that it benefits both current and future generations of the University of Chicago. They oversee the broad investment strategy and provide input to the development of the strategic and tactical investment policies of the University & UCMC endowments, pension plans and self-insurance trust assets. Their strategy combines qualitative and quantitative analysis, seeking to achieve superior investment performance on a risk-adjusted basis.

Career History

Co-Founder

1997 - Current

Odyssey Investment Partners LLC

Odyssey Investment Partners (OIP) seeks to identify and invest in established middle-market companies in industries or markets that are poised to benefit from economic changes, secular trends, regulatory changes or market dislocations. The firm typically makes majority, control-oriented investments in established middle-market companies in the following industries: (1) industrial manufacturing (2) business and insurance services (3) aerospace/defense products and services (4) route-based businesses (5) supply chain management (6) energy products and services and (7) rental businesses. The firm seeks to invest in companies with existing management teams. Their objective is to transform middle-market businesses into larger companies with industry-leading market shares and operating margins. OIP makes investments in the form of leveraged acquisitions, growth financings and recapitalizations.

Executive Vice President

1990 - 1993

General Electric Capital Corporation

General Electric Capital Corp. provides financial products and services. Its services include commercial loans and leases, fleet management, financial programs, credit cards, personal loans and other financial services. The firm’s solutions include energy finance and aviation finance. The company was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Prior - 1989

Financial Guaranty Insurance Co.

Financial Guaranty Insurance Co. engages in the provision of insurance solutions. It offers financial guaranty, mortgage insurance, and mortgage services for credit enhancement on public finance and structured finance securities. The company was founded by Roger K. Taylor in 1983 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Boards & Committees

Member, Board of Directors

Current

SM&A, Inc.

SM&A, Inc. provides management consulting services. It provides strategy, proposal management, program management, systems engineering, expert support, program planning and other technical support to industrial customers. The firm serves in the area of defense, homeland security, aerospace, information technology, architect and engineering sectors. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Member, Board of Directors

Current

Evans Analytical Group LLC

Evans Analytical Group LLC provides micro analytical surface analysis and materials characterization services. The company was founded on May 27, 2005 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Member, Board of Directors

Current

TNT Crane & Rigging, Inc.

TNT Crane & Rigging, Inc. engages in the provision of lifting services. It offers recurring industrial facility maintenance; large scale turnaround projects; erection, fabrication, and construction projects; installation of commercial machinery and equipment; wind farm construction and maintenance; well completion and production; compressor installation; and power, paper mill, and mining outages. The company was founded by Randy Dobbs and Troy L. Lambert in 1985 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Member, Board of Directors

Current

The Partnership for New York City

Partnership for New York City, an organization whose mission is to enhance the economy of the five boroughs of New York City and maintain the city’s position as the global center of commerce, culture and innovation

Member, Board of Trustees

Current

Citizens Budget Commission, Inc.

The Citizens Budget Commission is a nonpartisan, nonprofit civic organization whose mission is to achieve constructive change in the finances and services of New York City and New York State government. CBC was founded in 1932, at a time of great fiscal crisis, when a group of distinguished civic leaders decided to start a research organization that would analyze the City’s finances, evaluate the management of city government, report on these matters to its members, and recommend improvements to municipal officials. In 1984 CBC expanded its research to include state as well as city government.

Director

Current

The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government

The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government is the public policy research arm of the State University of New York. It conducts nonpartisan, data-driven research and analysis on state and local government and finance, American federalism, public management, and New York State issues. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Albany, NY.

Non-Profit Donations & Grants

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$1,000 - $2,499

2010

United Hospital Fund

United Hospital Fund is a non-profit organization which organizes charitable support for voluntary, nonprofit hospitals. It offers Improving Health Care for Every New Yorker, tribute gifts, memorial gifts, planned giving, and special events. The organization was founded in 1879 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

$1,000 - $2,499

2009

United Hospital Fund

United Hospital Fund is a non-profit organization which organizes charitable support for voluntary, nonprofit hospitals. It offers Improving Health Care for Every New Yorker, tribute gifts, memorial gifts, planned giving, and special events. The organization was founded in 1879 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

$1,000 - $2,499

2007

United Hospital Fund

United Hospital Fund is a non-profit organization which organizes charitable support for voluntary, nonprofit hospitals. It offers Improving Health Care for Every New Yorker, tribute gifts, memorial gifts, planned giving, and special events. The organization was founded in 1879 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Political Donations

$2,600

2014

Ann McLane Kuster

Representative from New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional District

$1,000

2012

Krysten Sinema

Senator at Office of the senator from Arizona, Kyrsten Sinema

$1,200

2012

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp

Former Senator from North Dakota

Transactions

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Eurofins Scientific SE purchases Evans Analytical Group LLC from GE Capital Equity, Inc., Newstone Capital Partners LLC, Odyssey Investment Partners LLC

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Odyssey Investment Partners LLC purchases Cross Country Pipeline Supply Co., Inc.

Other Affiliations

Stephen Berger is affiliated with Odyssey Investment Partners LLC, General Electric Capital Corporation, Financial Guaranty Insurance Co., The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (New York), Odyssey Partners LP, Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., State of New York Financial Control Board, Odyssey Professionals V LLC, SM&A, Inc., Evans Analytical Group LLC, TNT Crane & Rigging, Inc., Dresser LLC, Dayton Superior Corp., Financial Guaranty Insurance Co., New York State Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century, York Insurance Services Group, Inc., ProMach, Inc., L-com LLC, The Partnership for New York City, Citizens Budget Commission, Inc., The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, United States Railway Association

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