Bill McGlashan
Bill McGlashan | |
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McGlashan in 2014 | |
| Born | November 20, 1963 |
| Education | Yale University (BA) Stanford University (MBA) |
| Occupation(s) | Founder and Ex-Managing Partner, TPG Growth |
| Spouse | Marie Rasic McGlashan |
| Children | 3 |
William E. McGlashan Jr. (born November 20, 1963) is an American businessman and former private equity investor. McGlashan founded TPG Growth, the growth equity and smaller buyout investment arm of TPG Capital, a global private equity investment firm. He is also a founder and was the initial-CEO of The Rise Fund, a social impact fund he co-founded with Bono and Jeffrey Skoll.
McGlashan is a co-founder and a former board member of STX Entertainment, an American film and television studio launched in 2014 with Robert Simonds, and a cofounder and director of Evolution Media Capital.
McGlashan was arrested on March 12, 2019, after being caught on FBI audio recordings, for participating in a college admissions bribery scandal. He was then fired for cause by TPG. He pled guilty in February 2021 to paying William "Rick" Singer to fix his son's test score. In May 2021, McGlashan was ordered to undergo a sentence which includes three months in prison and a $250,000 fine.