Mark T. Gallogly

Mark T. Gallogly is cofounder and managing principal of Centerbridge Partners. Centerbridge is a multi strategy investment firm.  The firm is focused on private equity and credit investing. Prior to founding Centerbridge in October 2005, Mr. Gallogly was at the Blackstone Group for 16 years.  At Blackstone, he was most recently a senior managing director, the head of private equity and a member of the firm’s management committee and the private equity group’s investment committee.

Throughout his 30-year career in investing and finance, Mr. Gallogly has been involved in a broad spectrum of industries, businesses and investment cycles. He has served on numerous public and private company boards of directors. He is currently on President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, the advisory council of the Hamilton Project, an economic policy group at the Brookings Institution, Columbia Business School board of overseers and the board of directors of the Dana Corporation.

Mr. Gallogly graduated with honors from the University of Notre Dame and attended Sophia University in Tokyo. He received his MBA from Columbia Business School in 1986. He lives in New York City with his wife, Lise Strickler, and their three daughters.