Richard K Lubin

Managing Director, Berkshire Partners, LLC

Richard entered private equity investing in 1981 after serving as Chief Executive Officer of FWD Corporation, which he took over during a period of significant losses and returned to profitability. Prior to heading FWD, Richard spent a decade in management and consulting, specializing in the turnaround of underperforming companies. Before co-founding Berkshire, Richard was a partner at the Thomas H. Lee Company. B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania M.B.A. from Harvard Business School

Relationships Interlocks Giving Data

Business Positions

Berkshire Partners LLC Boston based private equity firm

• Managing Director

Thomas H. Lee Partners One of the oldest private equity firms

• partner (past)

Board Memberships

WGBH Boston's PBS affiliate, largest producer of PBS content

• Board Member ('12→?)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Largest art museum in Boston

• chairman [+1]

• elected trustee

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Cancer treatment and research institution in Boston

• trustee

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

Mitt Romney U.S. senator from Utah, former Massachusetts governor

• 5 contributions · 8,100 USD ('94→'12)

Massachusetts Republican State Congressional Committee

• 1 contribution · 5,000 USD ('04)

Bill Weld 2020 GOP presidential primary candidate; former governor of Massachusetts

• 1 contribution · 1,000 USD ('95)

Erskine B Bowles Clinton's chief of staff from 1996-1998; investor; deficit hawk

• 2 contributions · 1,000 USD ('02)

Robert W. Kasten, Jr. US Representative and Senator from Wisconsin

• 1 contribution · 200 USD ('93)

Schools

Harvard Business School

• MBA

University of Pennsylvania Private, Ivy League university founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1740 as one of the nine colonial colleges chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence

• BS