Ryan Baker

Ryan Baker is a Partner of KPS Capital Partners, LP.  KPS, through its affiliated management entities, is the manager of the KPS Special Situations Funds, a family of private equity funds with approximately $12.3 billion of assets under management (as of December 31, 2020) 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. Baker 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.

Mr. Baker currently serves on the Board of Directors of the following KPS portfolio companies: Lufkin Industries  (Chairman), AM General and Briggs & Stratton. 

The KPS Funds’ portfolio companies have aggregate annual revenues of approximately $10.6 billion, operate 159 manufacturing facilities in 22 countries, and have approximately 34,000 employees, directly and through joint ventures worldwide.

Prior to joining KPS in 2007, Mr. Baker was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in their Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Mr. Baker graduated from the University of Toronto’s Joseph L. Rotman School of Management with an M.B.A and the Faculty of Law with a J.D. Mr. Baker graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a B.S. in computer science and statistical sciences.