Ben Landis Bio

Ben is a Managing Director at SBJ and has over twenty years of experience in corporate finance, acquisitions and investments. Ben helps lead diligence, execution and management of SBJ's investments and originates new investment opportunities. Immediately prior to joining SBJ, Ben served as SVP and CFO at New Evolution Ventures (“NeV”), an investment firm focused on the health, wellness and fitness market. Ben led mergers, acquisitions and all other strategic initiatives for NeV as well as NeV’s subsidiaries, including US Fitness, UFC Gym and subsidiaries operating in Australia, Chile and Mexico. Prior to joining NeV, Ben was a Senior Associate with TPG Capital in San Francisco (formerly Texas Pacific Group), a leading global investment management firm with $48 billion of capital under management. While at TPG, Ben executed over $6 billion of transactions across a variety of industries. Prior to TPG, Ben served as a Senior Analyst in the Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley, assisting in strategic advisory, merger and acquisition analysis and equity and debt financing transactions. Ben graduated with a BA in Mathematics-Economics and Computer Science from Wesleyan University and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. Ben is originally from Massachusetts, but moved to the Bay Area from the East Coast in 2004. After a brief return for business school which included two terribly cold winters, Ben happily returned to the Bay Area and currently lives in Orinda with his wife and three sons (naturally, he still roots for all of the Boston sports teams).