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Henry Lea Hillman (December 25, 1918 – April 14, 2017) was an American billionaire businessman, investor, civic leader, and philanthropist. He was chairman of The Hillman Company, [1] a family office and investment company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and owned by the Hillman family. [2] .
The reinvention of The Hillman Company began with Henry Hillman’s early endorsement of private equity in the 1970s, while the company transitioned from its industrial origins. In recent years we generally limit our investing to the world’s top firms and co-investment opportunities.
Henry L. Hillman (1918-2017) led The Hillman Company through its formative years as a diversified investment company. Under his direction, the company’s prescient and significant investments transformed entire industries, including energy, real state, finance, healthcare, technology, and media & telecom.
Henry Hillman was a self-made investor who backed KKR and Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers. He died in 2017 and left millions for his Pittsburgh foundation.
Apr 16, 2017 · Henry Hillman was adventurous as an entrepreneur and a genius in the development of his business interests and his philanthropy. But he kept a low-key, unpretentious profile – in the same mold as Dan Rooney and Fred Rogers – and often ceded the public spotlight to his wife, Elsie Hillman.
May 4, 2017 · Henry Hillman (1918-2017) was a global investor, civic leader and generous donor to the University of Pittsburgh. He and his wife Elsie Hillman transformed the city and the University with their gifts to libraries, cancer research, public policy and more.
(Bloomberg) -- Henry L. Hillman, whose diversified investment company was a founding investor in the first funds of Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts and Kleiner Perkins, has died. He was 98.
