Marc Bodnick is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of Elevation Partners. Marc has extensive experience as a Silicon Valley investor in large-scale media and consumer technology investments. Marc was a founding principal of Silver Lake Partners, having joined the firm prior to its initial fundraising in 1999. Prior to Silver Lake, Marc served as an Associate in the Principal Investment Group at The Blackstone Group where he served on teams evaluating, executing, and monitoring a variety of private equity investments. Prior to Blackstone, Marc served at Kroll Associates as a Director in the Crisis Management Group where he worked on consulting teams providing advice to clients in situations involving corporate security, kidnap and ransom incidents, and political violence.

Marc has an A.M. in Political Science from Stanford University and an A.B. in Government from Harvard University. Marc is on the board of Yelp and Coupons, Inc.