Paul Finnegan
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Paul James Finnegan (born 1953) is a Chicago-based investor and philanthropist. In 1992, he co-founded Madison Dearborn Partners and currently serves as the firm's co-CEO. From 2014 to 2023, served as the Treasurer of the Harvard Corporation and the Chair of the Harvard Management Company.[1][2]
Life
Finnegan was born and raised in Massachusetts and attended Phillips Academy in Andover, graduating in 1971.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He graduated from Harvard in 1975, where he was a member of the College's ski team.[3] He also attended Harvard Business School.[4]
Business career
In 1992, Finnegan co-founded Madison Dearborn. He has served as co-CEO since 2007, when fellow co-founder and then-CEO John Canning Jr. was looking to buy the Chicago Cubs.[5][6]
Finnegan is also a director at AIA Corporation, CDW, Government Sourcing Solutions LLC, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.[4][7]
He is a major donor in Illinois politics, having donated $100,000 to Rahm Emanuel's campaign for mayor in 2015[8] and another $200,000 to Emanuel's aborted run for mayor in 2019.[9]
Philanthropy and non-profit work
Through the Finnegan Family Foundation, he has donated to causes in the areas of education, youth, health, and local Chicago community.[10]
Finnegan has been a member of the Harvard Corporation since 2012, and has served as it treasurer since replacing Jim Rothenberg in 2014.[11][12] He was on the search committee that selected Larry Bacow as the 29th President of Harvard University.[13]
Finnegan serves of the board of Teach For America and a variety of Chicago metropolitan area non-profits.[14]
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