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James Coulter
Nationality	United States
Education	Dartmouth College, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Occupation	Private equity investor
Employer	TPG Capital (formerly Texas Pacific Group)
Known for	Co-founder of Texas Pacific Group

James Coulter is a private equity and co-founder of TPG Capital, originally known as the Texas Pacific Group.

Overview

In 1992, Coulter founded the Fort Worth and San Francisco-based private equity firm, which as of 2007 was ranked the fifth largest globally with over $23.5 billion of assets under management.^[1] Prior to co-founding TPG in 1992, Coulter worked together with the other co-founders, for Robert M. Bass. Coulter joined the Robert M. Bass Group from Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb.

Coulter has been involved in some of the largest leveraged buyout transactions on record including TPG's marquee transaction, the takeover of Continental Airlines in 1993. He has also been involved with TPG's investments in America West Airlines, Burger King, Del Monte Foods, J. Crew^[2], Ducati Motor Holding, Gemplus International, MEMC, ON Semiconductor, Oxford Health Plans^[3][4], Petco^[5][6] and Seagate Technology.

Coulter graduated summa cum laude graduate from Dartmouth College, where he was also Phi Beta Kappa. He subsequently received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1986, where he was named an Arjay Miller Scholar.

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