 | This is a partial list of notable Jewish American business executives in the finance industry. |
| | This is a partial list of notable Jewish American business executives in the finance industry. |
Lazard Inc. is a financial advisory and asset management firm that engages in investment banking, asset management and other financial services, primarily with institutional clients. It is the world's largest independent investment bank, with principal executive offices in New York City, Paris and London.
A. G. Becker & Co. was an investment bank based in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Fred Wilpon is an American real estate developer and former baseball executive. He was principal owner of the New York Mets from 1987 to 2020.
740 Park Avenue is a luxury cooperative apartment building on the west side of Park Avenue between East 71st and 72nd Streets in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. It was described in Business Insider in 2011 as "a legendary address" that was "at one time considered the most luxurious and powerful residential building in New York City". The "pre-war" building's side entrance address is 71 East 71st Street.
Schulte Roth & Zabel, LLP is a full service law firm with offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., and London. The number of attorneys practicing at the firm globally is approximately 320 as of 2020, down from approximately 375 attorneys in 2013.
Highland Capital Partners is a global venture capital firm with offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, and San Francisco. Highland has raised over $4 billion in committed capital and invested in more than 280 companies, with 47 IPOs and 134 acquisitions.
Marc Lasry is a Moroccan American billionaire businessman and private equity manager. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Avenue Capital Group. He was a co-owner of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks basketball team from 2014 to 2023.
Arthur Jay Samberg was an American businessman and philanthropist. He founded Pequot Capital Management and served as the chief executive officer, president and chairman of the company. Samberg's flagship Pequot fund, started in 1986, netted 17.8 percent over the life of the fund. After the fund closed, he managed his family office through Hawkes Financial. He was also a significant contributor to several hospitals and universities, including New York-Presbyterian Hospital and his alma maters Columbia Business School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jacob Ezra Merkin is an American investor, hedge fund manager and philanthropist. He had been a fund manager and capital raiser until 2008 when one of the funds in Gabriel Capital LP, his $5 billion group of hedge funds became insolvent because a large portion of its assets was invested with the convicted Ponzi scheme operator Bernard Madoff. The fallout from his investment with Madoff has been extensive. He navigated a series of lawsuits without a finding of fraud or knowledge of the scheme, but agreed to repay any fees earned from the investment in Madoff historically. He had to resign a series of positions including his role as non-executive chairman of GMAC.
René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet was a French aristocrat, money manager, and businessman. He was one of the founders of Access International Advisors, a company caught and subsumed in the Madoff investment scandal in 2008. He died by suicide after losing an estimated $1.4 billion in Madoff's scheme.
Fairfield Greenwich Group is an investment firm founded in 1983 in New York City. The firm had among the largest exposures to the Bernard Madoff fraud.
Richard Cayne Perry is an American hedge fund manager whose firm, Perry Capital LLC invested in several companies and, starting in 2012, owned a controlling interest in Barneys New York. Perry sold his controlling interest in Barneys New York in August 2019.
Tremont Group Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation headquartered in Rye, New York, is a hedge fund group with a subsidiary that advised a feeder fund to Bernard Madoff's investment advisory firm in the Madoff investment scandal. This was the second-largest feeder fund to Madoff's firm due to the group having had a long professional relationship with him as Chairman of the NASD, the precursor to FINRA, and as the largest options market maker on the NASDAQ.The firm was one of the largest hedge fund consultants and advisors globally during the seminal 1990's period and pioneered a number of ground breaking products such as the CSFB Tremont Hedge Fund Index, specialized products and venues for hedge fund investment; structured products, insurance entities, new markets and jurisdictions including the first institutional fund of hedge funds in Korea and the foundation of The Bermuda Stock exchange. Prominent board members and shareholders included; Mario Gabelli of Gabelli Asset Management, Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors and Arthur Samberg of Pequot Capital Management. Tremont was among the first investors and/or involved in the launch or restructuring of numerous legendary funds such as; S.A.C., Quantum and AQR.
Pine River Capital Management is an American asset management firm based in Minnetonka, MN. The firm traded its investors funds using stocks, fixed income, derivatives and warrants.
Gabe Plotkin is an American businessman, the founder and chief investment officer of former Melvin Capital Management and Tallwoods Capital LLC. He is also a majority owner and co-chairman of the Charlotte Hornets of the NBA.
He [ Aleynikov ] wasn't religious in any conventional sense, but he'd been born a Jew, which had been noted on his Russian passport to remind everyone of the fact
As I got to know Roger, I realized he hid his being Jewish well, and Arthur and I assumed he wanted Potoma to be included so that we wouldn't be seen to the outside world as a Jewish firm.
The new charges leveled against Browder, who is Jewish, accuse him of forming a criminal group to embezzle funds in Russia.
There was no Fitzgerald in the firm at this [company foundation] point. "The rumor is that Bernie Cantor invented the name so a Jewish guy could break into the Irish-dominated bond market," says Fraser. "But John Fitzgerald was a real person, a big guy in insurance, a minor partner who died in 1964."
By his own account, Arthur Carter was a suburban Jewish boy who made his money on Wall Street
Stanley Chais, a once-prominent Jewish philanthropist whose phone number was literally on Madoff's speed dial.
'You're a Jew. I'm a Jew,' Cogan told Golsen.
Judaism helps to center her. "Judaism has always been something to be nourished and enjoyed," says Cohen, who comes from a religiously observant family.
(1:58) I was very aware of being Jewish
Englander was born to Orthodox Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York, in 1948. Growing up, he attended yeshiva, a traditional religious study school, before earning a degree in finance from New York University in 1970.
Glucksman, a child of second-generation Hungarian Jews, wasn't involved in the Jewish community in his adopted home in Ireland
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"I come from generations of progressive, atheist Jews," he [Nick] said.
Two years later, he nearly wrested the mantle of chemical behemoth Union Carbide Corp. in Danbury -- the same town where Heyman grew up in a tight-knit Jewish household.
Ishbia, 42, who will also acquire the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury in the deal, grew up in a Jewish family in Birmingham, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.
(...) he [Kahn] once responded: "My parents were not practicing Jews and did not bring me up to be a practicing Jew. But I have never left Judaism and have no idea of doing so." Especially during the last decade of his life, Otto Kahn reaffirmed his Jewish heritage
Two other Jewish-led groups, one headed by Oaktree Capital Management's Steve Kaplan and the other by Lionsgate Entertainment Chairman Mark Rachesky
Michael and his younger brother George grew up poor Jewish kids in Hungary in the mid-1950s.
Born in 1969, Keinan could well have become one of America's vanishing Jews (...) they [his family] had a Seder but ate bread on Pesach.
It was at that time that Mrs Kohn embraced an increasingly orthodox Judaism, in time cutting her hair short and wearing a wig as her faith required
He [Lasry] is from the Jewish community of Morocco, having been born in Marrakech.
LeBow, who is Jewish, even brought in a rabbi to say a prayer for the dead deal
N.Y. Rabbi Stephen A. Klein officiated at the 200 Fifth Club in New York.
The Melamed family landed in Chicago as Jewish refugees
Minaj was hired by a New York taxi mogul, Andrew Murstein, to grace and perform at his son Matt's bar mitzvah party last weekend in Manhattan
I became obsessed with money, and lost touch with my core Jewish values, and that bar mitzvah boy reading Shoftim.
The couple is both members of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York and they have made significant contributions to their synagogue. They are a Jewish family.
In 1979, at a bar mitzvah party for Simon's son Nathaniel (...)
Steinberg said that although both her children attend a Jewish preschool, her work schedule precludes her from taking on a leadership role in the Jewish community, much to the chagrin of her mother.
Steinhardt fashions himself as the disruptive Jewish innovator
"I'll be at shul until maybe the third or fourth inning," Sternberg said
David Tisch began investing in startups when he was a teenager. He took his bar mitzvah money, invested it in eBay's IPO, and saw a 15x return.
Tulchinsky, who immigrated to the United States in 1977 from Belarus and lives in Greenwich, said he has been receiving instruction in the Torah from Rabbi Yossi Deren for the past five or six years, which has had a "positive effect" on his life.
(...) and Igor Tulchinsky, the Jewish philanthropist who funded the trip.
Rabbi Dubrowski is a faithful Lightning fan and is friendly with the team's owner, Jeffrey Vinik, who is Jewish
Rabbi Stephen Robbins performed the ceremony at the Bel-Air Bay Club.