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Brian N. Sheth is the former President of Vista Equity Partners, a private equity fund based in Austin, Texas. Sheth was listed in the Forbes 2018 World Billionaires list with an estimated net worth of $2 billion.[1] He was also a member of Fortune’s 2015 “40 under 40” list and Forbes’ 40 under 40 in 2015.[2][3] In 2020, Forbes ranked him No. 359 in the Forbes 400 list of the richest people in America.[4]
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Early life
His father was an immigrant from India who worked in finance and marketing, and his Irish-Catholic mother worked as an insurance analyst.[5]
Education and early career
Sheth holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
He worked in the mergers and acquisitions groups at Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, where he advised clients in a variety of industries, including software, hardware, semiconductors, and online media.[6]
Sheth then worked at Bain Capital, where he focused on leveraged buyouts of technology companies.
Vista Equity Partners
In 2000, Sheth joined Vista Equity Partners as vice president.[7] Vista is an investment firm that owns over 50 software companies and has 65,000 employees worldwide, making it the fourth largest enterprise software company after Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP.[8] Vista was named the world’s top-performing private equity firm by the 2014 HEC-Dow Jones Private Equity Performance Ranking.[9] In 2010, Sheth became president of the company and was given the title of co-founder.[7][10] In November 2020, Sheth resigned from Vista.[7][10]
Boards and philanthropy
Sheth sits on a number of boards, including: The Active Network, Advicent, Aptean, Autotask, Bullhorn, DealerSocket, Global Wildlife Conservation, Greenway, MarVista Entertainment, MRI Software, STATS, Taxware, and Forcepoint.[6][11]
Sheth and his wife, Adria Sheth, established the Sheth Sangreal Foundation, which is dedicated to education and wildlife conservation.[12][13] Sheth also chairs the Global Wildlife Conservation, an international organization working in over 50 countries around the world to protect wildlife and ecosystems.[11][14][15]
References
- ↑ "Brian Sheth" (in en). Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/profile/brian-sheth/?list=billionaires#1067053919d1.
- ↑ "Fortune's 2016 40 Under 40". fortune.com. 22 September 2016. http://fortune.com/40-under-40/debbie-sterling-32/. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ↑ Kroll, Luisa. "Brian Sheth - pg.19". forbes.com. https://www.forbes.com/pictures/mel45hkhh/brian-sheth/#6bf079206275. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ↑ "The Forbes 400: The Definitive Ranking Of The Wealthiest Americans in 2020". https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/.
- ↑ Vardi, Nathan. "The Billionaire Who Is The Biggest Dealmaker In Software". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2018/03/07/the-billionaire-who-is-the-biggest-dealmaker-in-software/#21306bf2513e. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Brian Sheth - Vista". vistaequitypartners.com. http://www.vistaequitypartners.com/ourteam/brian-sheth. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Austin billionaire Sheth leaving Vista Equity in wake of Smith tax scandal" (in en). 27 November 2020. https://www.statesman.com/business/20201127/austin-billionaire-sheth-leaving-vista-equity-in-wake-of-smith-tax-scandal.
- ↑ "Vista Equity: The Biggest Software Group You've Never Heard Of" (in en). PCMAG. https://www.pcmag.com/article/364594/vista-equity-the-biggest-software-group-youve-never-heard.
- ↑ "The 2015 HEC-DowJones Private Equity Performance Ranking - Robert Agostinelli". robertagostinelli.net. 21 December 2015. http://www.robertagostinelli.net/the-2015-hec-dowjones-private-equity-performance-ranking/. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Dorbian, Iris (2020-11-30). "Vista Equity President Sheth steps down" (in en-US). https://www.pehub.com/vista-equity-president-sheth-steps-down/.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Board of Directors - Global Wildlife Conservation". globalwildlife.org. http://globalwildlife.org/about-gwc/board-of-directors/. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ↑ "About Us - Sangreal Foundation". sangrealfoundation.org. http://sangrealfoundation.org/about. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ↑ "Worth Giving: How Tech Finance Leader Brian Sheth Wants to Save the Planet". worth.com. http://www.worth.com/worth-giving-the-butterfly-effect/. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ↑ Vardi, Nathan. "The Billionaire Who Is The Biggest Dealmaker In Software" (in en). Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2018/03/07/the-billionaire-who-is-the-biggest-dealmaker-in-software/#44daf1ec2513.
- ↑ "Youth and Conservation: The Holy Grails of a Young Billionaire Couple's Giving" (in en-US). Inside Philanthropy. https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2018/3/23/youth-and-conservation-the-holy-grail-of-this-young-billionahtml.
