Morgan Alternative Asset Management, a $13 billion hedge fund solutions provider that served both institutional and retail investors globally. During his tenure at JPMorgan, Robert was also President of J.P. Prior to joining RedBird, Robert worked for ten years at JPMorgan most recently as Global Head of the Alternative Investments Group - a hedge fund, private equity/credit and real estate platform with over $80 billion in assets under supervision. In this capacity, he advises on product creation, business building and capital advisory.
In addition to his Firm responsibilities, Robert is also involved in select Financial Services investments, including Main Street Advisors, Grafine Partners and Vida Capital. He has also built internal teams to further support and institutionalize the Firm’s operating infrastructure. Since joining RedBird in 2017, Robert has helped to drive AUM growth from $1 billion to $7 billion and has diversified RedBird’s LP base to include global blue-chip pension plans, endowments, insurance companies, asset managers and family offices. In his current role, Robert oversees the non-investment operations of the Firm, including Capital Partnerships, Finance and Legal & Compliance. Robert Klein is the President of the Firm.
Gerry received an Honors BA from Harvard University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and an M.Phil in Politics and Political Theory from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Philanthropically, Gerry is a Trustee of the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City and leads one of the multi-state Selection Committees that awards Rhodes Scholarships each year. Accordingly, 50% of the Firm’s investment professionals and 30% of CEOs in its most recent fund are either female or diverse. He is also active in driving RedBird’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion within the Firm as well as within the investment portfolio. In addition to his broad responsibilities as Chief Investment Officer, Gerry is actively engaged in company-building activities across the Firm’s portfolio in its core industries of Sports, Media & Entertainment and Financial Services. During his tenure, Gerry worked with entrepreneurs and family business owners to build several successful multi-billion-dollar companies, including the Yankees Entertainment & Sports (“YES”) Network, Legends Hospitality, and Suddenlink Communications. Prior to founding RedBird in 2014, Gerry spent 20 years at Goldman Sachs where he was a Partner of the firm and a senior leader of the Merchant Bank’s private equity investing business. Notable investments include Aquarian, a diversified life and annuity insurance carrier with over $7 billion of assets and an affiliated asset manager and Constellation, a managing general agent insurance distribution platform that RedBird scaled to a top 5 player in the industry in under two years before exiting to Truist in July 2021. Since the Firm’s inception, RedBird has also been an active investor and company builder in Financial Services - a core competency of the Firm with a dedicated investment team that has invested over $1 billion across Insurance & Insurance Distribution, Asset & Wealth Management and Fintech & Insurtech. Milan which recently won Italy’s Serie A Championship. The Firm’s prior and current investment portfolio includes many of the world’s most iconic entrepreneurs, properties and brands across the sports, media and entertainment industries – including Fenway Sports Group (Boston Red Sox, Liverpool FC, Pittsburgh Penguins, New England Sports Network) the Yankees Entertainment & Sports (“YES”) Network (New York Yankees and Amazon) Skydance Media (Larry and David Ellison) The Springhill Company (LeBron James and Maverick Carter) the XFL (Dwayne Johnson and his partner Dany Garcia) and European football’s A.C. RedBird manages $7.5 billion of equity on behalf of a select group of blue-chip institutional and family office investors. Gerry Cardinale is the Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of the firm. Founder and Managing Partner Gerry Cardinale
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