The Private Equity Staffer With a Shot at Olympic Glory

Private equity staffers regularly frequent the basement gym at 510 Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Among them: an athlete preparing to don the red, white and blue in her second Summer Olympics.

Meet Olivia Coffey, a senior associate at One Equity Partners, representing Team USA in the women’s eight next week. Her personal best time on an ergometer, or indoor rowing machine, over 2 kilometers is 6 minutes and 36 seconds.

Olivia Coffey

Photographer: Jesse Dittmar/One Equity Partners

Speaking to Bloomberg News from Erba in Northern Italy, where US rowers trained before traveling to Paris earlier this month, 35-year-old Coffey explained how she forged a ...