Neal Aronson
American businessman (born 1965)
Neal Keith Aronson (born 1965) is an American billionaire businessman, and the founder and managing partner of Roark Capital Group, a private equity firm.
Education and career
Aronson earned a bachelor's degree from Lehigh University. He started his career in the corporate finance department of Drexel Burnham Lambert.
In 1995, together with his uncle, Mike Leven, a former president of Holiday Inn, he co-founded U.S. Franchise Systems, and expanded a regional chain of 27 hotels into the US's tenth-largest hotel franchisor with more than 1,100 properties before selling it to the Pritzker family's Hyatt Hotels in 2000 for $100 million, earning Aronson about $10 million.
In 2001, Aronson founded Roark Capital.
As of May 2025, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$4.1 billion.
Personal life
Aronson is married to Wendy Conrad; they live in Atlanta, Georgia and have three children.
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