Richard Kayne

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Mr. Kayne is chief executive officer and co-founder of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors.

He began his career in the mid-1960s as an analyst with Loeb, Rhodes & Co. in New York. Prior to forming Kayne Anderson, Mr. Kayne was a principal of Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Inc., where he managed private accounts, a hedge fund and a portion of firm capital.

Mr. Kayne is a trustee of and the former chairman of the Investment Committee of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Foundation and is a trustee and co-chairman of the Investment Committee of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.

Mr. Kayne earned a B.S. in Statistics from Stanford University in 1966 and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1968.