Andrew Gundlach

Andrew Gundlach is president and CEO of Bleichroeder LLC, an investment management firm focused on ultra high-net-worth families.

Bleichroeder was demerged from First Eagle Holdings, a $120 billion investment manager with a primary focus on global equities, after Blackstone acquired control of First Eagle in 2015 in a $4 billion transaction, which Mr. Gundlach initiated. Mr. Gundlach has been a Director of First Eagle Holdings and its predecessor Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder Holdings, since 2006. Before joining First Eagle, he worked in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance Departments of JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley.

Mr. Gundlach is also the CEO of Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. (BACQ), a Special Purpose Vehicle trading on the Nasdaq.

Mr. Gundlach received his MBA in 2001 from Columbia Business School, where he has served as a board member since 2016 and has been an adjunct professor in the Graham & Dodd Center for Value Investing since 2004. He currently teaches a course with Adjunct Professor Kristin Gilberton, the former CIO of UPenn, called Endowment, Foundation, and Family Office Investment Management. He received his BSFS and MSFS degrees from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 1994.

He is a member of the board of directors at Welltower, serving on the Audit and Investment Committees. Mr. Gundlach chaired the Investment committee of Axa Art, the largest global art insurance company, for eight years and co-chaired the Board of Directors of Materia, Inc., a high-growth material science company that spun out of CalTech and sold to Exxon in 2019.

He is currently a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serving on the Investment Committee, and also serves on the Executive and Investment Committees of the American Academy in Berlin. He is a Trustee of the Guggenheim.

In 2025 he was awarded the Horton Award for Excellence in Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School in recognition of his leadership role in the community, including his longstanding support of executive education programs for New York City’s leading cultural institutions.