Michael Psaros
Michael Psaros is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of KPS Capital Partners, LP (“KPS”), and a member of its Investment Committee and Management Committee. KPS, through its affiliated management entities, is the manager of the KPS Special Situations Funds, a family of private equity funds with approximately $19.4 billion of assets under management (as of March 31, 2025), focused on making controlling equity investments in manufacturing and industrial companies across a diverse array of industries, including basic materials, branded consumer, healthcare and luxury products, automotive parts, capital equipment and general manufacturing.
Mr. Psaros and the Partners of KPS have successfully developed and executed a proprietary investment strategy of creating new companies to acquire assets or businesses from large corporations, businesses owned by families or entrepreneurs, and businesses presented for sale in connection with financial restructurings, including companies owned by former creditor groups. KPS then transforms these businesses into independent, world-class, industry-leading enterprises by structurally improving their strategic position, competitiveness and profitability.
The KPS Funds’ portfolio companies currently generate aggregate annual revenues of approximately $22.2 billion, operate 216 manufacturing facilities in 21 countries, and have approximately 57,000 employees, directly and through joint ventures worldwide (as of March 31, 2025).
Mr. Psaros currently serves on the Board of Directors of the following KPS portfolio companies: Autokiniton Global Group (Chairman), Briggs & Stratton (Chairman), Innomotics (Chairman), Lufkin Industries (Chairman), Primient (Chairman), Speira (Chairman), Alta Performance Materials, AM General, C&D Technologies, Hussey Copper, Life Fitness, Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope, Princess Yachts and Sport Group. In addition, Mr. Psaros previously served on the Board of Directors of 35 former KPS portfolio companies.
Prior to joining its predecessor in 1991 and creating KPS in 1997, Mr. Psaros was an investment banker with Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc.
He received a B.S.B.A. in Finance from Georgetown University and attended Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan.
Mr. Psaros served on the Board of Directors of Georgetown University. He currently serves as Vice Chair of the University’s McDonough School of Business and on the Advisory Board of the University’s Endowment.
Mr. Psaros received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Honorus Causa, from Georgetown University on May 17, 2025, where he was the Commencement Speaker at the graduation ceremony of the McDonough School of Business.
Mr. Psaros and his spouse created “The Michael and Robin Psaros Endowed Chair in Business Administration” at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business in 2013.
Mr. Psaros and his Family created the “The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Endowed Orthodox Chaplaincy, Endowed by the Michael Psaros Family” at Georgetown University in 2021.
The Psaros Family also funded an Orthodox Christian Iconostasis and accompanying Iconography for the Copley Crypt Chapel at Georgetown University.
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The Psaros Family named and endowed the “The Georgetown Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy” in 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8GM9PkReq0). The Georgetown Psaros Center provides unbiased, non-partisan, objective expertise to guide policy and practice by leveraging the combination of the strength of Georgetown’s University’s McDonough School of Business, its distinguished faculty, its leadership in finance, public policy, and standing in Washington, D.C. The Georgetown Psaros Center convenes leaders across private sector, the global capital markets, legislators, and regulators to solve problems for the common good. The Georgetown Psaros Center is an intellectual honest broker, a facilitator, and an educator for both practitioners, policy makers and journalists seeking unbiased expertise in Washington and globally. The Georgetown Psaros Center’s Distinguished Fellows and Visiting Fellows provide expertise, research and thought leadership on critical issues of the day (https://finpolicy.georgetown.edu/distinguished-fellows/).
Mr. Psaros is the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the St. Nicholas, a Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine located at Ground Zero in New York City (www.StNicholasWTC.org). He is the former Vice Chair of the organization responsible for its construction and completion. The National Shrine is the only house of worship located at Ground Zero and serves as a cenotaph in memory of the 3,000 people who tragically lost their lives on September 11th, 2001. The St. Nicholas National Shrine has attracted over 500,000 visitors from all over the world since opening to the public in December 2022.
Psaros was honored by the Hellenic Republic (Greece), through The Hellenic Post (ELTA) and the International Foundation for Greece, for his exceptional business achievements, extensive philanthropic efforts, and commitment to Hellenism. The Hellenic Post placed Mr. Psaros on a limited-edition postage stamp now in circulation throughout Greece.
Mr. Psaros is an Archon of the Ecumenical Patriarch, where he serves on its National Council. He serves on the Board of Trustees of The Leadership 100 Endowment – Advancing Hellenism and Orthodoxy in America, and the Executive Board of The Hellenic Initiative. He previously served as the Treasurer of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and currently serves on its Executive Committee. He is the recipient of numerous awards from national Hellenic and Orthodox organizations.