J. Christopher Flowers

Quick Facts

Full Name	J. Christopher Flowers
Occupation	Businessperson
Date Of Birth	Oct 27, 1957(1957-10-27)
Age	67
Birthplace	California
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Capricorn

J. Christopher Flowers Biography

J. Christopher Flowers is one of the most popular and richest Businessperson who was born on October 27, 1957 in California, California, United States. James Christopher Flowers (born October 27, 1957) is an American private equity investor and investment manager focused on the financial services industry. He is a Managing Director and CEO of J.C. Flowers & Co., and a member of the firm’s Management Committee.

Flowers established the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professorship at Harvard in honor of his parents in 2003. The current professor endowed by the fund is George Whitesides. Flowers also participated in the creation of the Harvard Professorship Challenge Fund in 2006, a $50 million fund to endow further professors.

After an unsuccessful attempt to arrange an acquisition of Sallie Mae in 2007, Flowers became deeply involved in the financial crisis of September 2008. He was approached by AIG to advise it on avoiding an imminent financial collapse. Flowers was well acquainted with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson from their days together at Goldman Sachs, and was among the first to warn Paulson of the impending disaster at AIG. Flowers continued to advise Bank of America as it gave up on a Lehman acquisition and went on to acquire Merrill Lynch. Flowers’s role in the crisis was portrayed by Michael O’Keefe in the 2011 HBO film Too Big to Fail.

In September 2008, Flowers also purchased the First National Bank of Cainesville, a regional bank in Missouri, renaming it Flowers National Bank. Flowers sold the bank to Farmers Bank of Northern Missouri in 2016.

Flowers was the main partner of Ripplewood Holdings CEO Tim Collins in the 2000 acquisition of Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan to form Shinsei Bank. He became a director of Shinsei Bank in March 2000 and continues to hold that position. Shinsei’s initial public offering in 2004 netted a profit of approximately $1 billion for himself and $7 billion total for his investment group. However, the value of the investor group’s stake decreased in the following years.

J. Christopher Flowers Net Worth

J. Christopher Flowers is one of the richest Businessperson from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, J. Christopher Flowers 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Flowers worked at Goldman Sachs for 19 years starting in March 1979, and was a founder of Goldman’s lucrative financial institutions merger practice in the 1980s. Flowers was named partner in 1988, the same year as former Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein and former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain. At 31, he was one of the youngest Goldman Sachs partners in history. Flowers retired from Goldman in 1998, one of fifteen partners to leave the bank prior to its 1998 initial public offering.

In 1998, Flowers founded J.C. Flowers & Co., a private equity advisory and fund management firm which has acquired major equity stakes in Shinsei, NIBC Bank, HSH Nordbank and other financial institutions. As of 2017, the company manages assets of US $6.7 billion.

J Christopher Flowers is the founder of the Anne and Chris Flowers Foundation and the J.C. Flowers Foundation. The J.C Flowers Foundation has local African teams in Angola, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, as well as Harlem in the US. In 2004, the Flowers Foundation launched NetsforLife, a partnership working with Episcopal Relief & Development to fight malaria in Africa. Flowers also co- founded the Isdell:Flowers Cross Border Malaria Initiative and supports the Harlem Parolee Initiative.

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J. Ranked on the list of most popular Businessperson. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. J. Christopher Flowers celebrates birthday on October 27 of every year.