"Leading Powerbroker" Tim Collins '78 to Speak at Wall Street Journal Conference Next Week

June 22, 2007

June 22, 2007, Greencastle, Ind. - Timothy C. Collins, senior managing director & CEO of Ripplewood Holdings and 1978 graduate of DePauw University, will be among the featured speakers at the "Wall Street Journal Deals and Deal Makers 2007." The event will take place June 27 at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

The conference "will take an in-depth look at the world of deal making with some of Wall Street's leading powerbrokers and discuss various topics such as new strategies in the deal world, economics and private equity," notes an article at CNN/Money. Other presenters will include: Lloyd Blankfein, chairman & CEO, Goldman Sachs & Co.; Carly Fiorina, former chair & CEO, Hewlett-Packard; Carl Icahn, chairman & president, Icahn Associates; and Henry M. Paulson Jr., secretary, United States Department of Treasury.

A biography of Tim Collins posted at the conference's Web site notes, "Ripplewood has invested in companies with more than $20 billion of revenue and has led several of the largest private equity transactions ever. Ripplewood's takeover of the Long-Term Credit Bank, renamed Shinsei Bank Limited, was a pioneering transaction in the restructuring of the Japanese economy. Prior to founding Ripplewood, Mr. Collins managed Onex Corporation's New York office. Previously, he was a vice president at Lazard Frères & Co., in New York and from 1981 to 1984, he worked with the management-consulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc., specializing in strategic and operational assignments with major industrial and financial firms. He began his career in finance, marketing, and manufacturing at Cummins Engine Company in 1974. Mr. Collins has earned a B.A. in philosophy from DePauw University and a M.B.A. in public and private management from Yale University."

Learn more about Tim Collins in this previous story. Another article includes video clips from a 2002 CNBC profile of Collins.

[Download Video: "Timothy C. Collins '78" - 976kb] "From DePauw I received many things: a first-rate education with genuine analytical rigor," said Collins as he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from his alma mater on May 22, 2005 (the complete speech is embedded below). "I left DePauw with an enduring hunger for truth. Studying philosophy here with great and caring teachers was an innoculation against intellectual complacency. Having exceeding healthy contempt for conventional wisdom has served me very well."

Read more about the event in this summary.

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