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Eric Zinterhofer

American banker

Eric Louis Zinterhofer (born August 1971) is an American private equity financier who is a founding partner of Searchlight Capital Partners.2

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Born 1971.1

Companies

Holdings

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Shares held

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Recent filings

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedUniversity of Pennsylvania3 4
  • Date not recordedHarvard Business School3 4

Eric Zinterhofer was born in August 1971. He is the son of Louis J. M. Zinterhofer and Susan A. Zinterhofer of Rumson, New Jersey. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Career

Occupation: financier.7

In his early career, Zinterhofer worked at Morgan Stanley as a financial analyst. In 1998, he took a job under Leon Black at Apollo Global Management. In 2010, he co-founded Searchlight Capital with Oliver Haarmann and Erol Uzumeri.

Zinterhofer was the chairman of Charter Communications from 2009 to 2016 and returned to the role in 2023 upon Tom Rutledge's retirement. In 2025, he joined the board of Estée Lauder. He will become president of the Board of Trustees at Phillips Academy Andover in July 2026.

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Personal life

  • SpouseAerin Lauder8 9

In June 1996, Zinterhofer married billionaire heiress Aerin Lauder, the daughter of Ronald Lauder in his home at Wainscott, Long Island, New York, with Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein presiding. They have two sons.

They live in New York City and have homes in Easthampton, New York, and Aspen, Colorado.

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