Cara Goldenberg

Cara Goldenberg is Founding Partner at Permian Investment Partners. Goldenberg got her undergraduate degree in chemistry in 2002 from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Her first job out of college was working as a private-equity analyst at New York-based investment bank Morgan Stanley.

She then moved to Highbridge Capital Management LLC, the hedge- fund firm owned by JPMorgan Chase & Co., in 2003, and to Brahman Capital Corp., also in New York, a year later. She became that firm’s youngest partner, and oversaw a $2 billion European equity portfolio. She and two former Brahman colleagues started Permian with about $65 million in assets in August 2008 and it now manages about $100 million. Permian, ...More which is named for the geologic period that ran from about 290 million to 250 million years ago, focuses on what it deems undervalued companies, mostly in Western Europe.