Silver Lake Enhances Executive Leadership Team

MENLO PARK, Calif. & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing, announced today the expansion of its senior leadership team. Karen King, a deeply respected Silver Lake executive who joined the firm over 21 years ago and has served as Managing Director & Chief Legal Officer since 2010, has been promoted to the newly created business role of Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer. Justin Hamill, who has served as esteemed outside counsel to Silver Lake for over a decade, will be joining the firm to become its Managing Director & Chief Legal Officer.

In her new role, King will formally assume the expanded leadership responsibilities she has taken on in key areas over the last several years. In addition to partnering with Hamill as he leads the global Legal & Compliance function, she will continue to provide oversight of the Human Resources, Government Affairs and Investor Relations functions. King will be positioned to engage more deeply in her current service on the boards of some of Silver Lake’s largest portfolio companies, such as Relativity and Qualtrics, as well as the board of Endeavor, which she joined recently. Previously, she represented Silver Lake on the boards of Serena Software and Aras. Building on that experience and leveraging a long career of transaction execution, King will devote increasingly more time to investment activities.

Hamill joins Silver Lake from his role as Global Chair of M&A for the global law firm Latham & Watkins, where he was twice named The American Lawyer’s “Dealmaker of the Year.” Over the last decade, he has advised Silver Lake on more transactions than any other outside counsel, including most recently its investments in Vantage, Khazna and ProService as well as the carveouts of Qualtrics from SAP and Altera from Intel.

“At Silver Lake, we strive for exceptionalism in our talent. We are thrilled to congratulate Karen, our extraordinary partner and consigliere, on this well-earned promotion, and to have Justin, an elite legal mind and sage advisor, joining our senior leadership team,” said co-CEOs Egon Durban and Greg Mondre. “The depth of both of their experience and wisdom will be instrumental as we continue to grow our platform and pursue our investment strategies.”

Silver Lake would also like to take this opportunity to recognize a cherished long-standing contributor who is retiring from the firm to spend more time with his family. After 17 years at Silver Lake, Andy Schader, the firm’s vaunted General Counsel, will transition to an Of Counsel role at the end of next month.

“We are extremely grateful to Andy for his many years of dedication and innumerable contributions to the firm, and we wish him all the best in his well-earned next chapter,” said Durban and Mondre.

About Silver Lake

Silver Lake is a global technology investment firm, with approximately $104 billion in combined assets under management and committed capital and a team of professionals based in North America, Europe and Asia. Silver Lake’s portfolio companies collectively generate nearly $252 billion of revenue annually and employ approximately 433,000 people globally.