Edward P. Garden
Chief Investment Officer, Trian Fund Management, L.P.
Edward P. Garden is Chief Investment Officer and a founding partner of Trian Fund Management, L.P. (“Trian Partners”). Founded in November 2005 by Nelson Peltz, Peter May and Edward Garden, Trian Partners seeks to invest in undervalued and under-performing companies and to work closely with the management of those companies to enhance shareholder value through a combination of strategic re-direction, improved operational execution, more efficient capital allocation and stronger focus.
Over the past six years, Trian Partners has put forth operating and strategic plans for companies including The Wendy’s Company (“Wendy’s”), H. J. Heinz Company, Legg Mason, Inc., State Street Corporation, Kraft Foods Inc., Cadbury plc, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (“Family Dollar”), Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. and Tiffany & Co. Along with his partners, Mr. Garden interacts with the management teams, board members and institutional shareholders of many of Trian’s portfolio companies to seek positive change at those companies. Mr. Garden currently serves as a director of Wendy’s, the third largest quick service restaurant company in the United States. Mr. Garden is also a director of Family Dollar, a discount retailer with approximately 7,000 stores and $8.5 billion of annual revenues.
From December 2004 to June 2007, Mr. Garden served as Vice Chairman and director of Triarc Companies, Inc., where he was also head of corporate development since August 2003.
Mr. Garden was previously a managing director of Credit Suisse First Boston, where he served as a senior investment banker in the Financial Sponsors Group since 1999. In this capacity, Mr. Garden was responsible for managing relationships with several large private equity firms, executing financings through the issuance of bank debt, corporate bonds and equity capital, and providing strategic advisory services. Prior to that, he was a managing director at BT Alex Brown.
Mr. Garden holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard College.
