Four Degrees of Disclosure –

Bob Boldt is chief executive and chief investment officer of the University of Texas Investment Management Co. (UTIMCO), a group that made waves earlier this month by disclosing confidential performance data on its private equity portfolio (See page 1). As Buyouts went to press, Boldt had just begun a two-week trip during which he will try to explain his disclosure position to general partners from every firm included in the UTIMCO portfolio. One man he will probably catch up with is…

Brian Linden, a director with European private equity firm (and UTIMCO portfolio partnership) Cinven. One of Linden’s biggest investment coups was his acquisition and subsequent sale of IPC Media. For the two years that Cinven acted as majority shareholder of IPC, Linden sat on its board of directors alongside…

Sly Bailey, chief executive of IPC Media. Bailey’s direct underlings are managing directors of six IPC brand groups, including the head honcho of glossy-magazine publishing unit SouthBank. Until his retirement in October of 2000, SouthBank was run by…

Colin Reeves Smith, a 34-year publishing veteran. In 1988, Smith received an unsolicited pitch from…

Glenda Bailey, who wanted to launch a U.S. version of French woman’s magazine Marie Claire. With Smith’s blessing and IPC’s capital, Bailey became editor-in-chief. Once each year, Bailey stepped aside so as to allow a celebrity guest editor to take over the reigns. For the January 2000 issue, that guest editor was…

Demi Moore, an actress who took to the editing job so well that she continued offering suggestions to Bailey long after the guest stint was up. One of Moore’s most memorable roles was that of the manipulative Meredith Johnson in the 1996 film Disclosure.