Jim Coulter

Mr. Coulter is a founding partner of TPG. Prior to forming TPG, Mr. Coulter was Vice President of the Robert M. Bass Group, Inc. (now doing business as Keystone, Inc.) in Fort Worth, Texas from 1986 to 1992. From 1986 to 1988, Mr. Coulter was also associated with SPO Partners & Co., an investment firm that focused on public market and private minority investments. From 1982 to 1984, Mr. Coulter was a financial analyst for Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb Inc. Mr. Coulter received an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also a Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College. Mr. Coulter serves or has served on the boards of directors of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., Lenovo Group Limited, The Neiman Marcus Group, Inc., Alltel Corporation, Seagate Technology, GlobespanVirata, Inc., J. Crew Group, Inc., Continental Airlines, Inc., Beringer Wine Estates Holdings, Inc., Northwest Airlines, Inc., Oxford Health Plans, Inc., Allied Waste Industries, Inc., and American Savings Bank. He also serves or has served on the boards of the San Francisco Zoological Society, Common Sense Media Inc., the Bay Area Discovery Museum, San Francisco University High School, and The San Francisco Day School. He is a former member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, a current co-chair of the school's Development Steering Committee and a member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University.