About Murry Gunty

Murry Gunty is a private equity investor and the founder of Black Bear Sports Group, a privately held investment firm he established in 2015 and based in Florida. Through Black Bear, Gunty acquires and operates ice arenas, youth sports teams, and entertainment facilities across the United States and Canada. He grew up in Portland, Maine, and has played hockey since childhood.

Gunty is also the founder of Blackstreet Capital Holdings, which acquires and turns around small to mid-sized distressed companies. Over a career of more than thirty years as an investment professional, he has led investments in approximately forty businesses representing more than one billion dollars in aggregate revenue, and has deployed over 1.7 billion dollars of equity and subordinated debt capital across more than fifty transactions.

Earlier in his career, Gunty was a general partner of Jacobson Partners, a middle-market private equity fund focused on control buyouts of businesses with up to 150 million dollars in revenue. He was previously a partner in the real estate principal investment group at Lazard Frères and Company, where he co-managed three billion dollars of capital in real estate private equity funds, and earlier an associate at the Blackstone Group.

Gunty holds an AB from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is based in Florida.