In February, the French business school HEC Paris, in conjunction with Dow Jones, named Thoma Bravo the best-performing buyout investor in the world after studying 898 funds raised between 20.
Few outside of finance have heard of the 49-year-old Bravo, but he is the driving force behind Wall Street’s hottest firm, the $39 billion (assets) Thoma Bravo. That grit and perseverance eventually propelled him to the top echelons of the private equity world. It became clear I could operate at these super-high levels of pain.” “It was a different level of hard work altogether. “It was quite humbling,” recalls Bravo, who’s still fit from his weekly tennis games. The brutally competitive environment helped Bravo climb to a top-40 ranking in the U.S.
