Reese Witherspoon is dating a German financier Oliver Haarmann. The couple were spotted on a yacht off the coast of Saint-Tropez, France, on the country’s southern coast on Sunday, July 13 where they packed on PDA. The couple started dating in 2024 as they were seen spending time together in NYC in July 2024.
Reese has previously been married twice. She was first married to Ryan Philippe from 1999 to 2008 and they have two children together Ava and Deacon Phillippe. She then married Jim Toth in 2011 but they divorced in 2023, they have a son, Tennessee James Toth. Both her former husbands are also in Hollywood as Jim is a producer, actor and former talent agent while Ryan is also an actor.
Just as his girlfriend, Oliver has also been previously married to Mala Gaonkar, a businesswoman and founder of SurgoCap Partners, an investment firm which made history as the largest debut of a woman-led hedge fund after they started trading with US $1.8 billion in 2023. She is a former founding partner at Lone Pine Capital where she worked for around 24 years. She has also previously worked for The Boston Consulting Group, and Chase Capital Partners. Mala and Oliver have two sons together.
Who is Oliver Haarmann
Oliver Haarmann is a German financier born in September 1967. He is a founding partner of private investment firm Searchlight Capital. He is also a minority co-owner of the NHL’s New York Islanders. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University as well as a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
He is a Founding Partner of Searchlight
Oliver is a founding partner of Searchlight alongside Eric Zinterhofer and Erol Uzumeri. Searchlight has made 47 investments with $11.8 billion under management. Its portfolio includes a number of companies adjacent to sports, including Endeavor-owned marketing agency 160over90, Spanish-language media giant TelevisaUnivision, and apparel retailer Roots.
Oliver serves on the Investment Committee, Operating Committee and Valuation Committee, and is jointly responsible for overseeing the Firm’s activities alongside the other founding partners. In addition, he serves on a number of current and prior portfolio company boards of Searchlight including EOLO, Global Risk Partners (“GRP”), Ocean Outdoor, Opus, among others.
He was previously a senior partner at KKR & Co L.P. (“KKR”) in London. He helped build KKR’s European business from a start-up into one of Europe’s leading private equity firms.
He is a minority c0-owner of the NHL’s New York Islanders
In Dec 2023, it was reported that Haarmann was in talks to buy roughly 10% of the New York Islanders. The Islanders are owned by Scott Malkin and Jon Ledecky, who bought the team in 2016 in a $485 million deal. In February 2024, the NY Post confirmed that Haarmann had invested in the team as a minority owner.
Philanthropy
Haarmann is involved in educational philanthropy initiativies which includes; serving as Chairman of IntoUniversity, a leading educational charity providing young people with educational support and university access through 39 centers across the UK. He is also a Board of Trustees at Brown University.
He also serves as a trustee at Surgo Foundation, which he helped co-found alongside his ex-wife Mala Gaonkar. Surgo Foundation “integrates ideas and approaches from multiple disciplines to examine stubborn problems in a new light. We generate unbiased insights on why people with limited resources behave the way they do and develop scalable solutions to move people to action. We create tools and make them available as a public good for the global development community.”
Oliver Haarmann Net worth
Oliver’s net worth is not publicly available.