Byron David Trott (born December 2, 1958) is the founder, chairman and CEO of BDT Capital Partners, a merchant bank that provides advice and capital to family and founder-led companies. Formerly, Trott was vice chairman of Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs. As of 2010, it was widely reported that he has a trusting relationship with Warren Buffett.
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Byron David Trott (born December 2, 1958) is the founder, chairman and CEO of BDT Capital Partners, a merchant bank that provides advice and capital to family and founder-led companies. Formerly, Trott was vice chairman of Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs. As of 2010, it was widely reported that he has a trusting relationship with Warren Buffett. (en)
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Byron D. Trott
Byron D. Trott is chairman and co-chief executive officer of BDT & MSD Partners, a merchant bank with an advisory and investment platform built to serve the distinct needs of business owners and strategic, long-term investors. He is also co-chief investment officer of BDT Capital Partners, a registered investment advisor of the firm. In 2009, Byron founded BDT & Company, a predecessor firm to BDT & MSD Partners. Prior to that, he had a distinguished 27-year career at Goldman Sachs & Co., where he was vice chairman of the global Investment Banking Division from 2005 to 2009. He is a director of Cox Enterprises, Enterprise Holdings, Inc., and Sunrise Group Holdings, LLC (“Whataburger”) and a board observer of GoodLeap, LLC and Tory Burch, LLC. Byron serves on the board of trustees of the University of Chicago and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also a director of Conservation International. In 2011, Byron was inducted into the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, and having served as president and chairman
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Byron Trott
Byron David Trott (born December 2, 1958) is the founder, chairman and co-CEO of BDT & MSD Partners, a merchant bank that provides advice and capital to family and founder-led companies. Formerly, Trott was vice chairman of Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs. As of 2010, it was widely reported that he has a trusting relationship with Warren Buffett. Raised in Union, Missouri, Trott received an AB from the University of Chicago in 1981, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1982. As an undergraduate, he played on the varsity baseball and football teams, and joined the Chi Upsilon chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. Trott was the 1981 recipient of the Amos Alonzo Stagg Medal, an award presented to the senior male student-athlete at the University of Chicago with the best overall record for academics, athletics and character. In 1982, Trott joined Goldman Sachs as a stockbroker, joining Goldman's investment banking division in 1988 and serving underneath future U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. He eventually rose to become vice chai