Partner
Carl Press is a Partner on the Explore team at Thoma Bravo. Based in San Francisco, he joined the firm in 2015 as a Vice President. Today, Carl is responsible for co-leading the firm’s Explore platform, which focuses on investing in high growth lower middle-market software and technology companies. Previously, he was a Senior Associate at HighBar Partners, an Associate in the Special Situations Group at Oaktree Capital Management, and an Analyst at UBS Investment Bank. GrowthCap named Carl to its list of Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors for 2021. Carl holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Palmer Scholar, and a BS with Honors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
EDUCATION
MBA, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PRIOR EXPERIENCE
HighBar Partners, Menlo Park, CA
Oaktree Capital Management, Los Angeles, CA
UBS Investment Bank, San Francisco, CA
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32nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60606
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UK
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Miami, FL 33127
Interim Space
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Suite 1504
New York, NY 10022
One Market Plaza
Spear Tower
Suite 2400
San Francisco, CA 94105
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