Biography

Richard J. Shinder is a Co-Founder and Partner at Ensis Partners, a New York-based boutique investment banking firm focused on debt advisory and financing transactions. Prior to co-founding Ensis Partners in early 2026, Mr. Shinder was the Managing Partner of Theatine Partners, a financial consulting and fiduciary services firm he formed in 2020. Previously, he was a Group Head at Piper Jaffray & Co. Prior to Piper, he was a Managing Director with TPG Capital. From 2009 to 2014, he was a partner at investment banking firm Perella Weinberg Partners, and before Perella was at Goldman Sachs. Earlier in his career he worked in the merchant banking and investing businesses of Merrill Lynch & Co. and Avenue Capital, respectively, and was also a Managing Director at Blackstone. He started his career with Lehman Brothers in New York. He has served as both an independent director as well as an interested (designee) director for approximately two dozen private companies, as well as on several philanthropic boards. He has been a member of the Board of Regents of Gonzaga University for the past 23 years, also sitting on the University’s Endowment Investment Committee and its SBA Executive Council. He is also a member of the leadership committee of Catholic Renewal, a philanthropic industry body affiliated with Catholic Charities of New York. Mr. Shinder earned an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated summa cum laude with a BBA from Gonzaga University.