We partner with businesses that consistently invest in their products and people, have built their reputations based on the quality of the goods they produce or services they provide, who have demonstrated the capacity for innovation and constant improvement, and who prioritize the interests of all stakeholders, including employees, customers, owners, and the communities in which the businesses operate. We offer flexibility in structure and have experience investing across industries and geographies.
SSW Partners LP was founded in 2021.
Eric Schwartz
PARTNER
Mr. Schwartz is a Partner in SSW. He also leads 76 West Holdings, a private family investment firm. He has served as director or Chairman of several private and public companies in the US, Europe, and Asia, with a focus on the financial services industry. Earlier in his career, Mr. Schwartz served on the Management Committee and as co-head of the Partnership Committee at Goldman Sachs, from which he retired in 2007.
Mr. Schwartz is currently Chairman of City Harvest, a trustee of The Brookings Institution, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the boards of UJA-Federation of New York and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is also the principal owner of the professional basketball team in Paris, France.
Joshua Steiner
PARTNER
Mr. Steiner is a Partner in SSW. He also serves as a Board Member and senior advisor at Bloomberg L.P., where he was previously Head of Industry Verticals. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Mr. Steiner was co-founder and co-president of Quadrangle Group LLC, a private equity and asset management firm. Before co-founding Quadrangle in March 2000, Mr. Steiner was a managing director at Lazard.
Mr. Steiner is a Trustee of Yale University, and is on the Board of Directors of the International Rescue Committee, and the Board of Overseers of the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
Antonio Weiss
PARTNER
Mr. Weiss is a Partner in SSW. He served as Counselor to the Secretary of the United States Treasury, where he oversaw the domestic finance department, during the Obama administration. Previously, Mr. Weiss spent more than 20 years in various leadership roles at Lazard in the United States and Europe, including as Global Head of Investment Banking.
Mr. Weiss is a Board Member of Santander Group and a Senior Advisor of JAB Holdings. He is a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Director or Trustee of the Volcker Alliance, the Bretton Woods Committee and the Citizens Budget Committee. He is a Director and past Publisher of the leading literary quarterly, The Paris Review.