Awards & Recognition
★Forbes 400 list 2019 - first Puerto Rican-born billionaire
★Forbes 'Wall Street's best dealmaker' 2019
★Thomson Reuters 'Eight Buyout Pros to Watch' 2009
★MarketWatch 50 most influential people in markets 2022-2023
★Bloomberg Línea 500 Most Influential People of Latin America 2023
★American University honorary doctorate of humane letters 2025
★Phi Beta Kappa graduate Brown University 1992
Notable Facts
→Co-founder and Managing Partner of Thoma Bravo with $183+ billion in assets under management
→Net worth estimated at $12.8 billion as of 2025/2026
→First Puerto Rican-born billionaire
→Overseen over 580 software and technology acquisitions worth $305+ billion in enterprise value
→Committed $100 million to Bravo Family Foundation for Puerto Rico entrepreneurship
→Has research center named after him at Brown University
→Board member at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
→Started career at Morgan Stanley, graduated from Brown (Phi Beta Kappa) and Stanford (JD/MBA)
→Former competitive tennis player who trained at Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy