Oliver Haarmann

Carl Ludwig Oliver Haarmann is a German private equity financier, and a founding partner of Searchlight Capital Partners. He is a minority owner of the New York Islanders.

Early life

Oliver Haarmann was born in September 1967. He earned a bachelor's degree in history and international relations from Brown University in 1990, and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1996.

Career

Haarmann was a managing director and partner at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. In June 2007, The Daily Telegraph reported that only one of KKR's eight London-based partners was tax-domiciled in the UK.
Searchlight Capital was established in 2010 by Eric Zinterhofer, Haarmann, and Erol Uzumeri, its founding partners.
Haarmann is a director of Ocean Outdoor and Hunter Boot.
He is a trustee of the Surgo Foundation, and IntoUniversity.
He is a minority owner of the New York Islanders National Hockey League team.

Personal life

Haarmann was married to fellow private equity businesswoman Mala Gaonkar. They have two sons.
As of July 2024, he was dating actress Reese Witherspoon.