Talk:Olympus Partners

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Looks like the External Link and References are reversed but the references are not supporting the content. I'll see what I can untangle from this spaghetti wire.--BelBivDov (talk) 18:26, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

New Edits to Olympus Page

I would like to include these new edits to the Olympus Page. I work for Olympus so have to post these to the talk page.

Robert "Rob" Scott Morris is an American businessman, the founder, Chairman and CEO of Olympus Partners, a Stamford, CT based private equity firm with over $12 billion in capital under management. Rob founded Olympus in 1988.

He has been a member of the Hamilton College Investment Committee and a member of the Hamilton College Board of Trustees since 1992. He served as Chairman of the Board of the Waterside School in Stamford, CT and remains of member of the Board and its Investment Committee.

Early Life and Education

Morris was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania and raised in the town of DeWitt in Upstate New York. He attended Jamesville-DeWitt High School before graduating from nearby Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, where he was awarded the Bristol Fellowship upon graduation which enabled him to travel through Europe and inspired his unpublished travel log, “Don't Lean Out the Window”, a humorous account of his European backpacking adventures.

Business Career

He began his career at General Electric in the Financial Management Program in Holland, Michigan. After leaving Holland to earn his MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, he rejoined GE in the Metallurgical Business Division before transitioning to the real estate finance group at GECC. He later led the private equity investment effort for General Electric Investment Corporation, which managed GE's Pension Fund. As Senior Vice President, he grew the private equity portfolio to $1.6 billion before leaving to found his own investment firm Olympus Partners, in 1988.

One of Olympus' goals was to create a fair compact between investors and its general partners. As part of building that idea into the investment contract, he and Olympus created the preferred return concept and included the idea of netting all transactions together to determine calculable net profit to split among the investors and the general partner.

The first Fund closed in 1990 at $101 million. Since then, Olympus has grown significantly with total Fund assets to date now exceeding $12 billion. The firm has received multiple high rankings for its funds. Olympus is known for its patient style as it only raises a Fund every five years. Throughout his career, Rob has served as the Board Chairman for dozens of Olympus portfolio companies.

Outside Interests

Rob has been deeply involved in fields that are of importance to him and to his wife: education, medical research, homelessness and children's sports. He has provided both financial and organizational support to several organizations: Hamilton College where he has funded dormitory construction, scholarships, internships and Common Ground efforts; Waterside School where he has funded construction and scholarships; YMCA Camp Coniston where he has funded building construction and tuition scholarships; Pacific House, a Stamford, CT program for homelessness, where he has funded building construction and operations; University of Pittsburgh and Upstate Medical Center where he has designed and funded motor neuron research; and Syracuse Challenger Baseball where he funded construction of a baseball field for special needs players. For his efforts, he has been recognized as Volunteer of the Year at Hamilton College and has received the Pacific House Leadership Award.

He is also deeply involved in teaching and in guest speaking. He began teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1996 and two years later began two decades of lecturing at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business. He also continues to write the popular "Rob's Blog", which Buyouts Insider describes as “a colorful series of brief articles on private equity topics mixed with detailed cultural, historical and political references.”

Personal Life

He is married to Mary Helen Garrett. They have three adult children. Courtney Dunne (talk) 14:26, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

 Not done no sources and the content does not belong on a company page. In future please request edits with the template {{edit COI}} Theroadislong (talk) 14:42, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

Are you able to help me remove the box on the top of the article? I have disclosed that I am an employee of Olympus on my user page. Courtney Dunne (talk) 14:59, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

Additionally, it looks like you deleted content that has been on the site for years and was created at the request of Wikipedia as they wanted to add pivate equity content. Can you tell us why? Courtney Dunne (talk) 15:16, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

the draft has been plagued by conflicted editors, there have been 6 so far. No content is ever created at the request of Wikipedia? Theroadislong (talk) 15:43, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia wanted more private equity content so contacted us to write an article on Olympus Partners. The blog is well-publicized as noted in the sources below. Please reinstate the comment about Olympus' blog.

https://www.buyoutsinsider.com/olympus-partners-seeks-3bn-in-rollout-of-latest-buyout-fund/ Courtney Dunne (talk) 17:25, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

You say "Wikipedia wanted more private equity content so contacted us to write an article on Olympus Partners" that is absolutely laughable! Wikipedia has zero interest in any company blog. Theroadislong (talk) 18:59, 6 August 2025 (UTC)