Donald J. Gogel is chairman of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC (CD&R), a private equity investment firm that he joined in 1989. He served as chief executive officer from 1998 to 2019.
CD&R is now investing from its $16 billion in its eleventh fund and currently manages over $30 billion in invested capital across 34 portfolio companies that together have approximately $60 billion in revenues and 240,000 employees around the world. The firm has been a leader for more than 40 years in integrating senior operative executives into its partnership. CD&R invests in a broad range of sectors in Europe and the U.S. — notably businesses in consumer retail, health care, services, and industrials.
Prior to joining CD&R, Mr. Gogel was a partner at McKinsey & Company as well as a founder of the merchant banking group at Kidder Peabody & Co., Inc.
He is a member of the Business Council and the Trilateral Commission. He is senior vice chairman of The Mount Sinai Medical System, vice chairman of the Cancer Research Institute, a former trustee of The Rhodes Trust and vice chairman of the board of The SeriousFun Children’s Network founded by Paul Newman, which serves 100,000 seriously ill children around the world each year.
Mr. Gogel received a B.A. with highest honors from Harvard College in international relations and then studied politics on a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University’s Balliol College, where he received an M.Phil. Mr. Gogel also received a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He played varsity lacrosse at both Harvard and Oxford.
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