Mike Murphy

Mike Murphy is a Partner on Bain Capital’s Asia Pacific Private Equity team. He played a leading role in opening Bain’s Australian offices, building the Australian team and increasing the firm’s local market presence, and has worked in the Sydney and Hong Kong offices. Before Bain Capital, Murphy was an investment professional at Sydney-based mid-market firm Wolseley Private Equity and a management consultant at Bain & Company. In a 2025 Forbes Australia interview, he discussed Bain’s ownership and operational changes at Virgin Australia, including fleet simplification, debt reduction and the airline’s return to the ASX. Murphy holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an LLB (Honours) and BComm from Bond University.