Steve Pagliuca is a Senior Advisor at Bain Capital, a leading global private investment firm based in Boston. Mr. Pagliuca is also a Managing Partner and Co-Owner of the World Championship Boston Celtics Basketball franchise. Steve is also co-owner and co-chairman of the Serie A professional football club, Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio.
Mr. Pagliuca joined Bain & Company in 1982 and founded the Information Partners private equity fund for Bain Capital in 1989. As a Managing Director of Bain Capital, he has helped build the firm into one of the world’s leading investment companies with over $75 billion in assets under management.
Mr. Pagliuca has also lived and worked in The Netherlands as a senior accountant and international tax specialist for Peat Marwick Mitchell & Company and has helped to develop Bain Capital’s private equity practice in Europe. His focus is investments in the media, information and health care industries.
Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors of Burger King, Gartner Group, HCA, Warner Chilcott and FCI.
Mr. Pagliuca is active with a variety of charitable organizations, serving as the President of the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation and Chairman of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Mr. Pagliuca is also a trustee of Bain Capital Children’s Charity, the firm’s initiative to support children’s causes, which has donated over $33 million for worthy organizations since its inception in 1997.
Mr. Pagliuca earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and received his B.A. from Duke University.