Mr. Furst is the founder of Oak Stream Investors, a private investment firm he started in 2008. Mr. Furst has more than 35 years of experience in leveraged acquisitions and private investments. He joined private equity firm HM Capital Partners LLC in 1989, the year it was formed (as Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, Inc.). Until 2008, he was a partner in HM Capital and was involved in all aspects of the firm’s business, including originating, structuring and monitoring the firm’s investments. Before joining HM Capital, Mr. Furst served as a vice president and subsequently partner of Hicks & Haas from 1987 to 1989. From 1984 to 1986, Mr. Furst was a mergers and acquisitions/corporate finance specialist for The First Boston Corporation in New York. Before joining First Boston, Mr. Furst was a financial consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Mr. Furst received his Bachelor of Science with honors from the College of Business Administration at Arizona State University and his Master of Business Administration with honors from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.