Consolidated Business Interests

CBI is Alec Gores's personal family office, deploying his own capital without external LPs or fund-duration constraints. The Gores Group is an SEC-registered investment adviser that manages institutional private equity funds. The two share an investment philosophy but operate as formally separate entities. This structure allows CBI to pursue deals — particularly in real estate, longer-duration holdings, and personal co-investments — that The Gores Group's fund documents would not accommodate.

The wealth originates from Alec Gores's career in leveraged buyouts which began in the mid-1980s. He founded The Gores Group in 1987 and built it into a firm that has closed over 130 acquisitions of technology, telecommunications, industrial, and business services companies. The firm's largest realized gain was the 2011 sale of software company The Learning Company — purchased in 2000 — for a reported profit of nearly $1 billion. Forbes estimated Gores's net worth at $4.2 billion as of 2024.

CBI targets direct company interests, commercial real estate acquisitions, and occasionally venture-stage positions. The office does not publicize asset-class allocations, but the portfolio broadly reflects the founder's expertise in operational turnarounds and control-oriented situations. Known activity has included California real estate holdings and direct stakes in technology and industrial businesses that align with the founder's personal origination network rather than a rigid sector mandate.

Alec Gores serves as managing principal with broad sole discretion over CBI's investment activity. The office runs with a deliberately small in-house team — the exact number of professionals is not publicly disclosed — that operates alongside but separately from The Gores Group's investment staff. No external investment committee or advisory board has been publicly identified, which is consistent with a single-family office heavily shaped by its founder's direct judgment.

CBI is strictly a single-family office — it manages only Alec Gores's personal capital and does not accept outside investors. It does not market itself as a fund, does not maintain a public portfolio, and makes no effort to attract third-party LP capital. This distinguishes it from family offices that have converted into multi-family or direct-investment platforms open to peers. The firm's entire investment activity is balance-sheet-driven.

While CBI's precise fund-commitment activity is not publicly disclosed, Alec Gores's pattern across his investment platforms suggests the office primarily executes direct deals rather than acting as a fund-of-funds allocator. The Gores Group itself manages institutional fund vehicles, and CBI's known deals reflect a direct, control-oriented posture. Any fund commitments — whether to external GPs or to Gores Group vehicles — would be personal capital decisions not subject to public disclosure.

CBI and The Gores Group both have a long track record of co-investing with external general partners, particularly in carve-out transactions where multiple capital sources are required. Alec Gores has personally co-invested alongside his firm's institutional funds in past deals, a practice that public records show dates back over two decades. The family office would be expected to participate in similar co-investment opportunities as they arise, though no specific recent co-investments involving CBI have been publicly identified.