How to Prepare for Search During Your MBA w/ Greg Geronemus of Footbridge Partners (ETA Club)

Greg Geronemus

Managing Partner, Footbridge Partners

Greg began his career at Goldman Sachs in their Private Equity Group, evaluating private equity fund investments, co-investments, and secondary private equity investments. Following Goldman Sachs, Greg attended Harvard Business School, where he & his section mate (David) formed Footbridge Partners I, a search fund vehicle designed to acquire and operate one lower middle market business. Greg & David searched for, acquired, operated & sold smarTours, a value-oriented tour operator, generating an outsized return for investors. Greg served as co-CEO and on the Board of Directors from 2013 to 2019.

Greg is actively involved in the broader search fund community. He organizes quarterly events for prospective, current and former searchers in the Bay Area and is a regular lecturer at top MBA programs across the country.  Greg also co-authored a Yale School of Management case titled “How to Prepare for a Search Fund During Your MBA”. He serves on the Board of Directors of two companies acquired through the search fund model, The Skin Center and 280 Group. He is also on the Board of Directors of the THANC Foundation and the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. Greg lives in San Francisco, CA with his wife and two daughters.

Greg graduated from Harvard College, cum laude, with a degree in Economics, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.