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Gerry Cardinale

Gerry Cardinale

Gerry Cardinale (#2308)

Global Rank #2308
Country Rank #773
Country United States

I wasn't one of these Wharton kids who knew I wanted to go to Wall Street from day one.

  • $ 2 B
  • Private equity
  • United States
  • M
  • 59 Years

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Quick Facts

Global Rank #2,308
Country Rank #773
Net Worth $1.8B
Previous Worth $1.8B
Worth Change +$0.0B
Country United States
Industry Private equity
Age 59 Years
Gender M
Worth As Of May 4, 2026
Last Refreshed 17 Sep 2026, 12:00 AM
Residence Palm Beach, Florida
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Personal Stats

Age 59
Source Of Wealth Private equity, Self Made
Residence Palm Beach, Florida
Citizenship United States
Education Master of Philosophy, Oxford Univeristy; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Harvard
Net Worth Change +$0.0B +0.0% from previous worth
Previous Net Worth $1.8B
Current Net Worth $1.8B

Worth as of May 4, 2026

About Me

Gerry Cardinale is the founder, CEO and owner of RedBird Capital Partners, a private equity firm with $12 billion in assets. RedBird targets investments in entertainment, sports and financial services. It invested $1.8 billion in Skydance Media's $8 billion purchase of Paramount. Cardinale spent nearly two decades at Goldman Sachs, working in Hong Kong, Singapore and New York. He was made a partner in 2004. At Goldman, Cardinale helped Yankees owner George Steinbrenner launch the YES regional sports network in 2001 and Legends Hospitality with Jerry Jones in 2008. Cardinale founded RedBird in 2014. The firm has backed ventures of Ben Affleck, LeBron James, and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and bought A.C. Milan in 2022.

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Cardinale rowed heavyweight crew at Harvard as an undergrad and at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where he rowed in the 1990 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.

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