Our Team
Greg Geronemus
Managing Partner
Greg is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Footbridge Partners. He began his career at Goldman Sachs in their Private Equity Group, evaluating private equity fund investments, co-investments, and secondary private equity investments. Following Goldman Sachs, Greg attended Harvard Business School, where he & his section mate (David) formed a search fund vehicle designed to acquire and operate one lower middle market business. Greg & David searched for, acquired, operated & sold smarTours, a value-oriented tour operator, generating an outsized return for investors. Greg served as co-CEO and on the Board of Directors from 2013 to 2019.
Greg is actively involved in the broader search fund community and is a regular lecturer at top MBA programs across the country. Greg also co-authored Yale School of Management cases entitled “How to Prepare for a Search Fund During Your MBA” and “A Call to Philanthropy in the Search Fund Ecosystem”. He serves on the Board of Directors of six companies on behalf of Footbridge Partners: The Skin Center, The Change Companies, AQC Traffic Control, 360 Smart Networks, ElderTree, and PerryGolf. He is also on the Board of Directors of the THANC Foundation and the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. Greg lives in San Francisco, CA with his wife and three children.
Greg graduated from Harvard College, cum laude, with a degree in Economics, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.
David Rosner
Managing Partner
David is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Footbridge Partners. He began his career in investment banking at Credit Suisse in the Financial Sponsors Group, advising private equity firms and their portfolio companies on debt, equity and M&A transactions. David then joined Diamond Castle, a private equity fund, where he evaluated, executed and monitored investments across a variety of industries including healthcare, financial services, energy and media. Following Diamond Castle, David attended Harvard Business School, where he & his section mate (Greg) formed a search fund vehicle designed to acquire and operate one lower middle market business. David & Greg searched for, acquired, operated & sold smarTours, a value-oriented tour operator, generating an outsized return for investors. David served as co-CEO and on the Board of Directors from 2013 to 2019.
David is actively involved in the broader search fund community. David is a Visiting Executive at Harvard Business School involved in the Entrepreneurship through Acquisition course (the course on search funds) and is a regular lecturer at other top MBA programs across the country. David also co-authored Yale School of Management cases entitled “A Call to Philanthropy in the Search Fund Ecosystem” and “On the Nature of Building an Internship Program in a Search Fund Project.” He serves on the Board of Directors of four companies on behalf of Footbridge Partners: Softrip, LexShares, 360 Smart Networks, and PerryGolf. He also serves on The Haverford School’s Leadership Council. David lives outside Philadelphia, PA with his wife and two sons.
David graduated from Princeton University, magna cum laude & Phi Beta Kappa, with a degree in Economics, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.