Barry Volpert JD

Barry Volpert JD General Information

Biography

Dr. Barry Volpert is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer, Partner and Chairman of the Investment Committee at Crestview Partners. He serves as Board member at WideOpenWest. He served as Board member at Industrial Media. He serves as Board Member at Oxbow Carbon. He is an Angel Investor. Mr. Volpert specializes in complex and contrarian investment themes arising out of major dislocations or restructurings. Mr. Volpert retired as a Partner of Goldman Sachs in 2003, where he spent 18 years as a Co-Founder and ultimately Co-Chief Operating Officer of the global private equity business. Among his responsibilities at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Volpert led the international private equity business while based in London for six years and founded the mezzanine fund business. Mr. Volpert is currently a Director of Key Safety Systems and Oxbow Carbon. He also serves as a member of the Dean's Advisory Board at Harvard Law School and an elected Council Member of the Sagaponack Village Erosion Control District. Mr. Volpert received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He received an M.B.A., with high distinction, from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar. Mr. Volpert received an A.B., summa cum laude, from Amherst College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After graduating from Amherst, he was a Luce Scholar in Singapore working for the Straits Times.