Amanda Zarrilli
Vice President
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- Full Name
- Amanda Zarrilli
- Title
- Partner (joined as Vice President in 2019; promoted to Principal, then Partner)
- Firm
- Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. (LGP)
- Firm Type
- Private equity (large-cap / mega-fund buyout firm) — *not an angel/seed investor, contrary to the stub data*
- Investment Stage
- Established, market-leading companies (buyouts, growth capital, recapitalizations, take-privates) — not seed/early stage
- Check Size
- Firm typically pursues transactions with enterprise values of roughly $500M–$2B, and up to ~$5B
- Target Company Profile
- Established, market-leading businesses with experienced management teams (often founder-led), partnered for growth
- Sector Focus
- Services-oriented sectors — consumer, business services, healthcare services, retail, distribution, and industrials
- Geographic Focus
- Primarily North America
- Location
- Los Angeles, California
Background
Amanda Zarrilli is a Partner at Leonard Green & Partners (LGP), a leading Los Angeles–based private equity firm founded in 1989 that manages approximately $85 billion in assets. She joined LGP as a Vice President in 2019 and has since been promoted to Principal and then Partner, making her one of the relatively few senior female investment professionals in the Los Angeles private equity community, where she is noted as a mentor and role model for younger women in finance.
Before LGP, Zarrilli spent roughly eight years at Goldman Sachs. From 2013 to 2019 she worked in private equity within Goldman's Principal Investment Area in New York, focused on Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) investments. From 2011 to 2013 she was in Goldman's Investment Banking Division, with exposure to the industrials group and leveraged finance.
Zarrilli graduated from Brown University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies. At LGP she evaluates and executes control-oriented private equity investments and serves on the boards of several portfolio companies, spanning healthcare services, industrial/business services, and consumer/technology businesses.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Invests through LGP's large-cap private equity strategy — control buyouts, growth equity, recapitalizations, take-privates, and corporate carve-outs — not angel or seed-stage checks.
- Targets established, market-leading companies in services-driven sectors: consumer, business services, healthcare services, retail, distribution, and industrials.
- Backs experienced management teams, frequently partnering with founders, and emphasizes growing businesses under LGP's "team-oriented," low-bureaucracy, stakeholder-oriented philosophy.
- Transaction sizes are institutional in scale (commonly ~$500M–$2B enterprise value, up to ~$5B), reflecting a mega-fund rather than a personal angel check.
- Personally active across healthcare services, industrial/fire-and-safety services, and consumer/tech deals, based on her board seats.
Notable Investments
- Epiphany Dermatology — dermatology services platform (board director).
- Pye-Barker Fire & Safety — fire protection and life-safety services provider (board director).
- Tecta America — commercial roofing services company (board director).
- Slickdeals — consumer deals/e-commerce community platform (board member).
- Trader Interactive — online vehicle marketplaces (board member).
- DMI — digital transformation/IT services firm (board observer).
- Sterling — background and identity verification services (board observer).
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