Oliver Haarmann

Carl Ludwig Oliver Haarmann (born 1967) is a German private equity financier, and a founding partner of Searchlight Capital Partners. He is a minority owner of the New York Islanders.

Early life Oliver Haarmann was born in September 1967. He earned a bachelor's degree in history and international relations from Brown University in 1990, and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1996.

Career Haarmann was a managing director and partner at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). In June 2007, The Daily Telegraph reported that only one of KKR's (then taking over Alliance Boots) eight London-based partners (not Haarmann) was tax-domiciled in the UK.

Searchlight Capital was established in 2010 by Eric Zinterhofer, Haarmann, and Erol Uzumeri, its founding partners.

Haarmann is a director of Ocean Outdoor and Hunter Boot. and IntoUniversity.

As of July 2024, he was dating actress Reese Witherspoon.