LACMA Elects Kelvin Davis to Board of Trustees

(Los Angeles, May 25, 2012)—The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has announced the election of Kelvin Davis to its Board of Trustees. Mr. Davis is a senior partner of TPG Capital, a leading private investment firm, and head of the firm’s North American Buyouts Group.

Mr. Davis is a passionate art collector and is also on the Board of Overseers at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, among other philanthropic interests. At LACMA, he has supported the annual Collectors Committee for the last two years. At the 2011 event he acquired outright a prototype desk by Donald Judd, as a gift to the museum. At this year’s gala, held on April 21, Mr. Davis contributed additional funds along with several LACMA trustees toward the acquisition of two paintings by eighteenth-century New Spanish painter Nicolás Enríquez.

“I am excited to welcome Kelvin Davis to LACMA’s Board of Trustees,” said Michael Govan, LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director. “Kelvin’s enthusiasm for our collection and our role in the community makes him a perfect fit.”

Co-Chair of LACMA’s Board of Trustees Andy Gordon added, “It has been a thrill for Co-Chair Terry Semel and me to see LACMA’s board grow over the last few years. We welcome the addition of Kelvin Davis to our roster of more than fifty active trustees who are helping to shape the museum for the twenty-first century.”


Kelvin Davis Bio
Kelvin Davis is a Senior Partner of TPG Capital and head of the firm's North American Buyouts Group, incorporating investments in all non-technology industry sectors. He also co-leads the firm’s Real Estate investing activities. TPG Capital is the global buyout group of TPG, a leading private investment firm founded in 1992, with over $50 billion of assets under management.

Mr. Davis earned a BA degree (Economics) from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard University, where he was a Baker Scholar, a John L. Loeb Fellow, and a Wolfe Award recipient. Mr. Davis is a Director of Caesars Entertainment, Inc., Northwest Investments, LLC, (which is an affiliate of ST Residential), Univision Communications, Inc., Taylor Morrison, Inc., and Catellus Development Corporation. He is also a long-time Director (and past Chairman) of Los Angeles Team Mentoring, Inc. (a charitable mentoring organization), is a Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, and is on the Board of Overseers of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens