Jonathan Lavine

Jonathan Lavine is Chair of Bain Capital, a leading global private investment firm.

Mr. Lavine joined Bain Capital in 1993, and founded Bain Capital Credit and Bain Capital Special Situations in 1998. From 2016 - 2024 he served as the firm’s Co-Managing Partner.
Before joining Bain Capital, Mr. Lavine was a consultant at McKinsey & Company and began his career as an analyst for Drexel Burnham Lambert.

The London School of Economics Alternative Investments Conference (AIC) awarded Mr. Lavine the AIC Distinguished Speaker Honour in 2023 for his contributions and support to the AIC community. Mr. Lavine first served as a keynote speaker at the AIC in 2020 and has returned several times since. His leadership has inspired students and continues to impact the success of the LSE AIC.

Mr. Lavine and his wife, Jeannie, formed and oversee the Crimson Lion Foundation, which delivers financial resources to a variety of nonprofit organizations that address systemic challenges in education, healthcare, public service, community welfare, discrimination, and poverty alleviation.

Jeannie and Jonathan Lavine are longtime supporters of Columbia University, where Mr. Lavine is Chair Emeritus of the Board of Trustees, and Harvard University, where the Lavines endowed the Lavine Family Humanitarian Studies Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health. They also partnered with Harvard Business School to endow the Lavine Family Fellowship Challenge Fund to help fellowship students who are the first in their families to go to college.

In 2016, Mr. Lavine was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council by President Obama and re-appointed by President Biden in 2023.

Mr. Lavine is a 2017 recipient of Columbia College’s Alexander Hamilton Medal, the highest honor awarded to a member of the college community for distinguished service. He is a past recipient of Columbia’s John Jay Award for professional achievement, Columbia’s David Truman Award for distinguished service to academic affairs and Columbia/Barnard Hillel’s Seixas Award for outstanding contributions to Jewish life at Columbia University.

He earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from Columbia College, and received his M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Business School.

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