Speaker Profile

Gerry Cardinale is the Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of RedBird Capital Partners.  

RedBird is one of the world’s most prolific and successful investors in sports, media and entertainment, managing over $10 billion of equity capital on behalf of a select group of blue-chip institutional and family office investors.  The Firm’s legacy and current investment portfolio includes many of the world’s most iconic entrepreneurs, properties and brands across the sports, media and entertainment industries. 

RedBird’s most recent investments include European football’s AC Milan; Everpass Media (the NFL); Skydance Media (Larry and David Ellison); Artists Equity (Ben Affleck and Matt Damon); All3Media (largest content creator in the UK); Fenway Sports Group (Boston Red Sox, Liverpool FC, Pittsburgh Penguins, New England Sports Network); the Yankees Entertainment & Sports (“YES”) Network (New York Yankees and Amazon); The Springhill Company (LeBron James and Maverick Carter); the United Football League (UFL) (Disney/ESPN, Fox and Dwayne Johnson); the Indian Premier League’s Rajasthan Royals; and Formula One’s Alpine Racing team.  

Since the Firm’s inception, RedBird has also been an active investor and company builder in Financial Services, with a dedicated investment team that has invested over $1 billion across Insurance and Insurance Distribution, Asset and Wealth Management, and Fintech & Insurtech.   

Prior to founding RedBird in 2014, Gerry spent 20 years at Goldman Sachs where he was a Partner of the firm and a senior leader of the Merchant Bank’s private equity investing business. During his tenure, Gerry worked with entrepreneurs and family business owners to build several successful multi-billion-dollar companies, including the founding of the YES Network, Legends Hospitality, and Suddenlink Communications. 

Gerry received an Honors BA from Harvard University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and an M.Phil in Politics and Political Theory from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar.