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Last Updated Mar 10, 2026, 1:01am EDT

  • Mark Attanasio is a managing partner and cofounder of Crescent Capital Group, a Los Angeles-based debt-focused investment firm with $43 billion in assets under management.
  • He is also chairman and principal owner of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team; he bought an estimated 45% stake in the team in 2004 for a reported $220 million.
  • Forbes now values the Brewers at $1.6 billion.
  • Attanasio is an investor in Strategic Sports Group, a group of sports team owners that in 2024 inked a deal to invest $3 billion in the PGA golf tour.
  • He first worked as a lawyer, then in the mid 1980s joined investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert, a pioneer in junk-bond trading. He cofounded Crescent in 1991.
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Age
69
Source of Wealth
Finance, Self Made
Residence
Los Angeles, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Married
Children
2
Education
JD, Columbia University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Brown University
Did you know
Attanasio is majority shareholder of Norwich City FC, a team that competes in the second tier of English professional soccer.
He was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, the son of actor Joe Attanasio (d. 2015) who sang the national anthem at home games for the Brewers.
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