Background
Crosby was born in Hollywood, California, at Queen of Angels Hospital. He is the fifth son of actor and singer Bing Crosby, the eldest from Bing"s second marriage to actress Kathryn Crosby.
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He attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from 1977-1980 and received an Master of Business Administration at Fordham Graduate School of Business Administration.
Career
Crosby has over three decades of experience in investment banking and managing a range of private equity relationships. He began his career at Lehman Brothers in 1987, working from associate level to Director. In 1993, he became Managing Director of the Cr Suisse Financial Sponsors Group, where he established key relationships.
He subsequently became Group Head and Managing Director of North America Financial Sponsors Group at Merrill Lynch where he managed clients such as KKR, Carlyle and Bain.
He was involved in the firm’s sale of Excel Mining Systems to Orica for approximately $670mn. In 2012, he became General Partner at Cranemere, investing in middle market private companies in North America, Germany and Austria.
Crosby has also served on a number of other corporate boards, including that of Excel Mining Systems. Crosby has served on philanthropic boards, including the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, a charitable organisation that funds education, health, human services, arts, community and environmental projects.
He has worked alongside the likes of Wynton Marsalis, jazz trumpeter and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Membership
As a trained musician, he is also an active fundraiser and board member of Jazz at Lincoln Center, a major performing arts institution structured as a non-profit organization and housed at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan, New New York
