Presenter

Samuel Katz

Founder / Managing Partner, TZP Group LLC

Samuel L. Katz is the Founder and Managing Partner of TZP Group, LLC a new $500 million private equity fund focused on consumer and business services companies. Katz served as chief executive officer of MacAndrews & Forbes Acquisition Holdings, Inc. the principal transaction vehicle for Ronald O. Perelman from January 2006 through January 2007. During that timeframe, Katz completed the acquisition of John Harland and Initial Security for an aggregate value of nearly $2 billion. Prior to joining MacAndrews & Forbes through December 2005, Katz served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cendant’s Travel Distribution Services (TDS) Division, a position he held since the division was established in October 2001, following the corporation’s acquisitions of Galileo International and Cheap Tickets, Inc. Katz was responsible for all travel distribution businesses which included Galileo International, Gullivers Travel Associates, Travelport, CheapTickets.com, ebookers.com, HotelClub.com and Orbitz.com. The TDS Division had approximately 9,000 employees in over 100 countries. Katz also served as Co-Chairman of Cendant’s Marketing Services Division (now known as Affinion), which included CIMS, Progeny, Trilegiant Corporation and Trilegiant Loyalty Solutions until it was sold in October 2005 for $1.8 billion. In this role, Katz also led the $800 million initial public offering of 100 percent of Cendant’s subsidiary, Jackson Hewitt Tax Services, in June 2004. During Cendant’s acquisitive growth period, Katz served as Cendant’s chief strategic officer, charged with identifying and facilitating strategic merger and acquisition opportunities for the Company. In this role, he managed all aspects of Cendant’s (and its predecessor HFS’) corporate development through more than $30 billion of strategic transactions, including Galileo International, Cheap Tickets, Coldwell Banker, Avis, Budget, RCI, Trendwest, PHH, and the formation of NRT Incorporated and Trip Network, as well as the Company’s affiliate, Trilegiant. Katz also led the Company’s strategic realignment in 1999 under which eighteen non-core businesses were divested and more than $4.5 billion in proceeds were generated. In the course of his career at Cendant Katz was senior executive vice president, strategic and business development; CEO of Cendant Internet Group; senior executive vice president, strategic development; and senior vice president, acquisitions for Cendant and its predecessor, HFS Inc., which he joined in January 1996. Before joining Cendant, Katz was a vice president of Dickstein Partners Inc. from June 1993 to December 1995. Prior to that, he was the co-chairman of Saber Capital Inc., a private investment firm and served as an associate and then a vice president of the Blackstone Group, an investment and merchant bank, where he focused on leveraged buy-out transactions including the purchases of the initial companies that formed HFS Incorporated. He started his career as a financial analyst in the mergers & acquisitions department of Drexel Burnham Lambert. Katz received his bachelor’s degree in economics, magna cum laude, from Columbia University in 1986. He is married with three children (ages 14, 11 and 8) and lives in New York City.

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