Eric Zinterhofer

Eric Louis Zinterhofer is an American private equity financier who is a founding partner of Searchlight Capital Partners.

Early life

Eric Zinterhofer was born in August 1971. He is the son of Louis J. M. Zinterhofer and Susan A. Zinterhofer of Rumson, New Jersey. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Career

In his early career, Zinterhofer worked at Morgan Stanley as a financial analyst. In 1998, he took a job under Leon Black at Apollo Global Management. In 2010, he co-founded Searchlight Capital with Oliver Haarmann and Erol Uzumeri.
Zinterhofer was the chairman of Charter Communications from 2009 to 2016 and returned to the role in 2023 upon Tom Rutledge's retirement. In 2025, he joined the board of Estée Lauder.

Personal life

In June 1996, Zinterhofer married billionaire heiress Aerin Lauder, the daughter of Ronald Lauder in his home at Wainscott, Long Island, New York, with Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein presiding. They have two sons.
They live in New York City and have homes in Easthampton, New York, and Aspen, Colorado.