Antonio Gracias

Extracted Attributes

• Net Worth

  $2.2 billion (as of April 2025)

• Alma Mater

  Georgetown University (BSFS, MSFS, 1993), Waseda University (studied abroad), University of Chicago Law School (JD, 1998)

• Occupation

  Investor, Executive, Businessperson, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer

• Nationality

  American

• Previous Roles

  Founder and Managing Member of MG Capital, Goldman Sachs & Co.

• Awards and Honors

  Immigrant & Refugee Contributions Award for Entrepreneurial & Business Leadership (2008), Henry Crown Fellow (2009)

• Government Appointments

  Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship Program (2015)

Timeline

• Graduated from Georgetown University with a BSFS and MSFS with a concentration in international economics. (Source: Web Search)

  1993-XX-XX

• Founded Valor (later Valor Equity Partners). (Source: Web Search)

  1995-XX-XX

• Graduated from the University of Chicago Law School with a JD. (Source: Web Search)

  1998-XX-XX

• Founded Valor Equity Partners as a private equity firm. (Source: Web Search)

  2001-XX-XX

• Became a Director of Tesla, Inc. (Source: Web Search)

  2007-XX-XX

• Received the Immigrant & Refugee Contributions Award for Entrepreneurial & Business Leadership from Changing Worlds. (Source: Web Search)

  2008-XX-XX

• Became a Henry Crown Fellow, an Aspen Institute program. (Source: Web Search)

  2009-XX-XX

• Appointed to the Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship (PAGE) Program. (Source: Web Search)

  2015-XX-XX

• Concluded his tenure as a Director of Tesla, Inc., having served as Lead Independent Director for eight years. (Source: Web Search)

  2021-XX-XX

• Attended a town hall with Elon Musk in Green Bay, Wisconsin, discussing the Social Security Administration. (Source: Web Search)

  2025-03-30

• Appeared on Fox and Friends, discussing Social Security numbers for non-citizens. (Source: Web Search)

  2025-04-02

• Forbes estimates his net worth to be $2.2 billion. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2025-04-XX

• Attended the F1 Miami event as a guest alongside other notable figures. (Source: Related Documents)

  2025-XX-XX

Antonio Gracias

Antonio Gracias is an American billionaire investor and executive who founded Valor Equity Partners. He has served on the boards of directors for several companies in which Valor has invested, including Tesla, Inc. and SpaceX. A longtime ally of Elon Musk, Gracias has received media attention for his participation in the Department of Government Efficiency. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $2.2 billion as of April 2025.

Web Search Results

• Antonio Gracias - Wikipedia

  Antonio Gracias is an American billionaire investor and executive who founded Valor Equity Partners. He has served on the boards of directors for several companies in which Valor has invested, including Tesla, Inc. and SpaceX. A longtime ally of Elon Musk, Gracias has received media attention for his participation in the Department of Government Efficiency. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $2.2 billion as of April 2025. ## Education [...] Gracias attended Georgetown University where he pursued a joint degree program in the Walsh School of Foreign Service, graduating with a BSFS and MSFS with a concentration in international economics in 1993. He also studied abroad at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, later returning to that city for a fellowship with Nikko Securities. He later attended the University of Chicago Law School, graduating with a JD in 1998. [...] As of 2025, Gracias is a member of the board of advisors for the Walsh School of Foreign Service, as well as the University of Chicago board of trustees. ## Investing career

• How DOGE used Social Security data to push dubious fraud claims

  `<iframe src=" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">` Investor Antonio Gracias at a town hall with Elon Musk in Green Bay, Wisc. on March 30, 2025. Gracias, who is part of Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team, has been working at the Social Security Administration. [...] The staffer, Antonio Gracias, made the claims as part of larger misleading statements about the SSA's enumeration-beyond-entry, or EBE program, which streamlines the process for granting Social Security cards to certain categories of eligible immigrants. Gracias said in an April 2 appearance on Fox and Friends that "5-plus million" noncitizens who "came to the country as illegals" received Social Security numbers "through an automatic system" and proceeded to "get into our benefit systems." [...] Investor Antonio Gracias at a town hall rally held by Elon Musk in Green Bay, Wis., on March 30. Gracias, who is part of Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team, has been working at the Social Security Administration. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption

• Elon Musk and DOGE's Antonio Gracias Cash In on Americans ...

  In the lead up to the April 1 election for the Wisconsin state Supreme Court, a little-known private equity executive by the name of Antonio Gracias joined Tesla billionaire Elon Musk on stage as the latter launched into a tirade clearly inspired by the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory — the discredited canard that the Biden administration was letting in millions of “illegals” to engage in mass voter fraud. [...] Valor and DOGE did not respond to Rolling Stone’s requests for comment. A 54-year-old University of Chicago Law School alum who has been associated with Musk since the PayPal days, Gracias has played a key role in helping prop up Musk’s embattled yet sprawling business empire. He’s a longtime investor in Musk’s companies, a significant Tesla shareholder, and former Tesla board member. [...] With his entry into the heights of Washington policymaking, Gracias, like Musk, has brought an overall mentality to the Trump administration with well-defined origins in private equity.

• Antonio J. Gracias - General Assembly

  Antonio is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Valor Equity Partners, the private equity firm he founded in 2001. Valor is headquartered in Chicago, has offices in San Francisco and New York City, and manages over $1 billion through several investment funds. Valor invests in high growth companies and serves them operationally as they scale. Valor was the first institutional investor in Tesla Motors and Antonio continues as Tesla's Lead Independent Director. He also is a [...] In 2008, Antonio received the Immigrant & Refugee Contributions Award for Entrepreneurial & Business Leadership from Changing Worlds, an educational arts non-profit organization. He is a 2009 Henry Crown Fellow, an Aspen Institute program designed to engage the next generation of leaders in the challenge of community spirited leadership. In 2015, Antonio was appointed to the Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship (PAGE) Program, chaired by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny [...] Prior to Valor, Antonio was the Founder and Managing Member of MG Capital where he acquired and acted as CEO for a number of manufacturing and technology related companies. At MG Capital, together with the team that is still together at Valor today, he developed the operational skills that Valor uses to help its portfolio companies achieve scale and enhance their value. Prior to MG Capital he was at Goldman, Sachs & Co.

• Antonio Gracias - Valor Equity Partners

  Antonio is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer of Valor. Antonio founded Valor in 1995. He has over 25 years of experience in private equity investing. Antonio was a Director of Tesla from 2007 to 2021. During his tenure, he served as Lead Independent Director for eight years, and helped take Tesla public. He is a Director of several Valor portfolio companies, including Space Exploration Technologies, WEKA and Zipline. He is a member of all Valor Investment [...] Prior to founding Valor, Antonio was the Founder and Managing Member of MG Capital where he acquired and acted as Chief Executive Officer for a number of manufacturing and technology related companies. At MG Capital, together with the team that is still together at Valor today, he developed the operational skills that Valor uses to help its portfolio companies achieve scale and enhance their value. Prior to MG Capital he was at Goldman Sachs. [...] In 2015, Antonio was appointed to the Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship Program, chaired by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. The program was a first-of-kind collaboration among the White House, entrepreneurs, the Department of Commerce, the Department of State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He is a 2009 Henry Crown Fellow, an Aspen Institute program designed to engage the next generation of leaders in the challenge of community spirited

• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  Waseda University

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  businessperson