Jens Brenninkmeyer

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2016, Jens worked as an Investment Analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co.’s Americas Special Situations Group. He received an MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University with a BSBA in Finance and International Business.

Vice Chairman of
Sixth Street

R. Martin Chavez

R. Martin Chavez, Ph.D., is Vice Chairman and Partner at Sixth Street.

Mr. Chavez currently serves as President of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University. He also serves on the fiduciary or advisory boards of Cambrian, Earli, Grupo Santander, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Recursion Pharma, Stanford Medicine, and the Stanford Center on Longevity. He is among the most senior Latinos in finance, as well as among the most senior openly gay executives.

Prior to joining Sixth Street, Mr. Chavez served in a variety of senior roles at Goldman Sachs, including Chief Information Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and global co-head of the firm’s Securities Division. Mr. Chavez was also a partner and member of the Goldman Sachs Management Committee. Mr. Chavez was one of the first developers of SecDB, an early platform that transformed the trading business into a software business. He retired from the firm in 2019.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Chavez was the CEO and co-founder of Kiodex, and Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Quorum Software Systems.

He holds an A.B. magna cum laude in Biochemical Sciences and an S.M. in Computer Science from Harvard, and a Ph.D. in Medical Information Sciences from Stanford.

Lindsay Farnsworth

Prior to joining Sixth Street as its Director of Tax in 2017, Lindsay was a Tax Partner with KPMG LLP. Ms. Farnsworth earned a B.B.A in Accounting and a B.B.A. in Business Management from Evangel University.

Chris Hopkins

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2019, Chris worked as an Associate for Audax Group. He received a BE in Mechanical Engineering and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College.

Benjamin Johnston

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2018, Ben was a Vice President with Battery Ventures focused on venture capital & growth equity investments in the internet and software space. Previously, he was a Senior Equity Research Associate at Rutberg & Company and holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Chemistry from Duke University.

Alex Katz

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2018, Alex worked as an Associate at General Atlantic and Abry Partners. He started his career as an Investment Analyst in the Private Equity Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. He graduated summa cum laude from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton University.

CO-head of
sixth street growth

Michael McGinn

Mike is a Partner of Sixth Street and Co-Head of Sixth Street Growth. Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2018, Mike was a Managing Director in AmSSG at Goldman Sachs, which he joined in 2004. From 2013 through 2018, he was co-head of PCI, AmSSG’s preferred equity, growth capital business. Prior to co-heading PCI, Mike worked in AmSSG’s Multi-Strategy Investing Group and Specialty Lending Group. Before joining AmSSG in 2006, he worked in Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research Division. Mike received a B.B.A. in Finance and Business Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame in 2002.

Vishva Mehta

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2019, Vishva was an Associate at Harvest Partners in the Structured Capital Fund, a group dedicated to non-control, structured equity investments. Prior to Harvest Partners, Vishva worked in the investment banking division of Lincoln International where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, special situations, and capital raises across multiple sectors. He graduated with honors and distinction from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Finance.

Lee Mooney

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2018, Lee was a Vice President at TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm where he focused on healthcare investments. Prior to TA Associates, Lee worked in the Global Healthcare Investment Banking group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and graduated magna cum laude from the Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in Finance.

Eric Rosenfeld

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2020, Eric worked in the Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley. He graduated from Northeastern University with an M.S. in Finance and a B.S. in Business Administration.

Sandra Rutova

Prior to joining Sixth Street as an Associate General Counsel in 2017, Sandra was an Associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Ms. Rutova holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and an L.L.B. from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kamoy Smalling

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2018, Kam was an Associate in the Principal Investments group at C-III Capital Partners and previously worked as Head of New York Acquisitions for Titan Partners, a special situations real estate firm. She began her career as an analyst in the Leverage Finance group at Deutsche Bank. She received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in History and Science from Harvard College.

CO-head of
sixth street growth

Robert (Bo) Stanley

Mr. Stanley is a Partner of Sixth Street and Co-Head of Sixth Street Growth, which is the firm’s platform for providing customized, non-control private capital for growth-oriented companies.  Mr. Stanley focuses on originating transactions in the software, payment systems, data infrastructure and business services sectors.  Representative portfolio companies include AvidXchange, Kaseya, Lucidworks, PayScale and SmartDrive. Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2011, Mr. Stanley was with Wells Fargo Capital Finance, where he served in multiple roles providing specialized financing to companies throughout the U.S. and Canada. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the University of Maine.

Alyana Verjee

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2020, Alyana worked on the Sponsor M&A Execution and Firmwide Strategy teams at Goldman Sachs. She graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University with a B.A. in Economics and Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies.

CEO of
Sixth Street

Alan Waxman

Alan Waxman is Co-Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Sixth Street.

Founded in 2009, Sixth Street manages over $50 billion in assets with 320 team members in nine offices around the world. The firm’s long-term oriented, highly flexible capital base and “One Team” cultural philosophy allow Sixth Street to invest thematically across sectors, geographies, and asset classes.

Prior to co-founding Sixth Street, Mr. Waxman was a Partner at Goldman Sachs and Chief Investment Officer of its largest proprietary investing business. Sixth Street continues an investment philosophy Mr. Waxman and Sixth Street’s founding partner group began developing over 20 years ago while building complementary businesses to invest Goldman’s capital in public and private markets across the capital structure in companies, assets, and idiosyncratic opportunities. At Goldman, Mr. Waxman founded and led private capital investing franchises in growth capital solutions, direct lending,  and alternative energy infrastructure, among others, as well as in public markets multi-strategy investing. He began his career at Goldman Sachs in 1998.

Mr. Waxman is a Founding LP and Strategic Advisor to Concrete Rose, an early stage investment platform deploying financial and social capital to underrepresented founders of color. Mr. Waxman and other Sixth Street team members began advising Concrete Rose leadership on the firm’s formation in 2018 and Sixth Street is a Founding Strategic Partner.

Mr. Waxman holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and currently serves on the Board of Overseers for the University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences. He also serves on the Board of Directors for The Tipping Point Community and the Advisory Council for the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula, which are both focused on fighting poverty and inequality of opportunity in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Benjamin Wu

Prior to joining Sixth Street, Ben was a Senior Managing Director in Principal Finance at Macquarie Group, where he invested balance sheet capital into direct opportunities. Before Macquarie, he was a Principal in Growth Equity at General Catalyst Partners and a Vice President in Drawbridge Special Opportunities at Fortress Investment Group. Ben holds a JD from Harvard Law School, as well as an MBA from the Wharton School, MS in Computer Science, and BSE/BSE degrees summa cum laude from the Management & Technology Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Ben is also a member of the Finance and Audit Committees at Tufts Medical Center.