Lawrence Golub

Lawrence E. Golub, an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and business executive, is the CEO of Golub Capital, a credit asset management company founded in 1994.

Prior to Golub Capital, he held management positions at Bankers Trust Company and Allen & Company.

Golub serves on the board of various organizations, including Harvard University's JD-MBA Alumni Association, and is one of three private members of the Financial Control Board of the State of New York.

Growing up in New York with parents from poor immigrant families, Golub attended Harvard College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude.

Initially interested in science, he studied DNA technology before switching to a business major and attending Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.

Golub earned a JD and MBA through a joint degree program, founded the Harvard University JD-MBA Alumni Association, and was selected as a Baker Scholar at Harvard Business School and editor at Harvard Law Review.

During his early career, Golub worked at various banks, starting at Allen & Company, where he engaged in private equity, leveraged finance, and M&A.

He became Managing Director at Wasserstein Perella, establishing the capital markets group and debt restructuring practice.

Golub served as a White House Fellow and Treasurer of the White House Fellows Foundation for 15 years before working as Managing Director of Bankers Trust Company.

1994

In 1994, Golub founded Golub Capital, which focuses on credit asset management with primary business lines in middle market lending, late stage lending, and broadly syndicated loans.

Golub Capital is affiliated with Golub Capital BDC, Inc., which trades on NASDAQ as GBDC, and is one of the largest non-bank middle market lenders and senior debt providers.

2016

In 2016, Golub Capital was named "Lender of the Year" by Private Debt Investor.

Golub is the President of the Harvard University JD-MBA Alumni Association and one of three private members of the Financial Control Board of the State of New York.

He is also a member of the Harvard University Committee on University Resources.

Golub is married to Karen Finerman, president and CEO of Metropolitan Capital Advisors, and they have two sets of twins.

Actively involved in charitable and civic organizations, Golub supports medical research for Parkinson's disease at leading institutions and established the Golub Stem Cell Initiative for Parkinson's with a $500,000 donation.

He has also funded Parkinson's research within the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.

Golub's philanthropic and civic involvement includes serving as former Chairman of Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a non-profit developer of low-income housing in the Bronx, and as a trustee of Montefiore Medical Center and Horace Mann School.

He is a member of the Harvard University Committee for Science and Engineering.