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TPG and nonprofit organization Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) announced today that TPG has become an inaugural sponsor of the SEO’s new Alternative Investment Fellowship Program (AIFP). TPG, one of the world’s leading private investment firms, has joined SEO to launch the AIFP which provides training, mentoring and education for young professionals of color and is aimed at positioning them to obtain employment at financial services companies, especially private equity and other alternative investment firms.

“We are pleased to welcome TPG as a sponsor of the AIFP which provides opportunities for motivated young professionals of color in finance to deepen their knowledge of careers with firms such as TPG,” said William Goodloe, President. “Since 1980, more than 2,500 SEO program participants

have secured entry-level analyst jobs on Wall Street. With more than 200 SEO alumni already working in the alternative investment sector, the new AIFP takes our efforts to the next level by helping more young professionals gain access to this dynamic area of the financial services industry.”

Jim Coulter, founding partner at TPG, said, “SEO has a track record of placing the highest caliber minority undergraduate students on Wall Street, and now, through the new AIFP, they are bringing together private equity firms, limited partners and top young investment banking analysts to further diversity in the private equity and alternative investment industry. We are proud to work with SEO in their efforts.”


About SEO

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1963 as one of New York City's first mentoring programs for high school students of color. SEO currently provides services through three major programs: the Career Program, the Scholars Program, and Alumni & Philanthropy Programs. Over the past four decades, SEO has grown into an established national nonprofit organization with offices in New York City and affiliates in London and Beijing, 40 full-time staff, and programs that serve over 1,000 young people each year, helping them develop throughout high school, college and their careers.
The SEO Career Program, the organization's flagship program, recruits and trains outstanding college students of color for summer internships that lead to full-time jobs with investment banks, corporate law firms and other leading global companies. The program has over 5,000 graduates. More information about SEO can be found on SEO's web site at www.seo-usa.org : .


About TPG

TPG is a private investment partnership that was founded in 1992 and currently has approximately $45 billion of assets under management.

Through its investment platforms, TPG Capital and TPG Growth, the firm has extensive experience with global public and private investments executed through leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, spinouts, joint ventures, growth investments and restructurings. The firm is headquartered in Fort Worth, and has offices in San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, New York, Washington, D.C., Melbourne, Moscow, Mumbai, Paris, Luxembourg, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo. Please visit www.tpg.com : .



SEOJulian Johnson, 646-435-9572Senior Vice PresidentSponsors
for Educational Opportunity www.seo-usa.org : orTPGLisa
Baker, 914-725-5949Owen Blicksilver PR, Inc. lisa@blicksilverpr.com : mailto:lisa@blicksilverpr.com