Glade Brook Capital Partners is an alternative asset manager investing globally in the technology, media, telecommunications and consumer sectors. The firm leverages their investment expertise to opportunistically deploy capital in the public and private sectors. Glade Brook was founded in 2011 by Paul Hudson, a former Managing Director at Shumway Capital Partners. To date, the firm has about $1.1 billion under management. About $830 million is in Glade Brook's hedge funds and about $300 million is in private equity vehicles.