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Neal Aronson
American businessman (born 1965) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Neal Keith Aronson (born 1965) is an American billionaire businessman, and the founder and managing partner of Roark Capital Group, a private equity firm.[1]
Aronson earned a bachelor's degree from Lehigh University.[2] He started his career in the corporate finance department of Drexel Burnham Lambert.[2]
In 1995, together with his uncle, Mike Leven, a former president of Holiday Inn, he co-founded U.S. Franchise Systems, and expanded a regional chain of 27 hotels into the US's tenth-largest hotel franchisor with more than 1,100 properties before selling it to the Pritzker family's Hyatt Hotels in 2000 for $100 million, earning Aronson about $10 million.[3]
In 2001, Aronson founded Roark Capital.[2]
As of May 2025, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$4.1 billion.[1]
Aronson is married to Wendy Conrad; they live in Atlanta, Georgia and have three children.[4]
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