Emil Henry Jr.

Emil Henry Jr. General Information

Biography

Mr. Emil Henry is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & CIO at Tiger Infrastructure Partners. He serves as a Board of Directors at ArrowMark Financial. He served as a Board member at American Natural. He also serves as a Senior Advisor at Summit Agricultural Group. He serves as a Board Member at Qwello. He served as a Board Member at Colonnade Acquisition Corp II, Easterly Government Properties, StoneCastle Financial, Sunlight Financial, 11:11 Systems, SmartSky Networks, NorthLink Aviation, and Granite Comfort. He served as a board member at Zenobe Energy. He began the formative part of his career at Morgan Stanley in the mid-1980s in that firm's merchant banking arm where he executed management buyouts for Morgan Stanley's flagship private equity fund. From there he became an early partner of Gleacher Partners, where he served as Managing Director and Chairman of Asset Management, having co-founded and successfully overseen Gleacher's core investment activities. In 2005, he was appointed by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. He is recognized as one of the first senior public officials to outline publicly and before the financial crisis how a systemic crisis might unfold driven by Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's concentrated holdings of subprime mortgages. In addition, he led the Treasury's efforts to establish emergency response protocols in the event of a financial crisis. These protocols were invoked in the early days of the crisis. He was an early leader of the Treasury's effort to reform regulatory oversight of financial institutions which resulted in the Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory Structure following the crisis. For his efforts and leadership, he received the Alexander Hamilton Award, the highest honor the Treasury can bestow upon a public official. After his public service, he returned to investment management as Global Head of Lehman Brothers' private equity business focused on infrastructure and also served on the private equity Management Committee. After Lehman Brothers, he founded Tiger Infrastructure Partners with the core group of his private equity colleagues. He was a member of the Advisory Board for the World Economic Forum's Globalization of Alternative Investments project. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has advised numerous politicians on economic policy including, most recently, as an economic advisor to the Romney presidential campaign. He is a noted public speaker and author and he has given speeches, lectures, and televised appearances on issues including systemic risk, private equity, hedge funds, and financial institution regulation. He has been published in leading periodicals including the Wall St. Journal, the Financial Times, National Review, Politico, and The Washington Post. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.