List of Jewish American businesspeople in finance

Finance

• Leonard L. Abess, owner and CEO of City National Bank of Florida
• Bill Ackman, hedge fund manager and investor, founder of Pershing Square Capital Management and co-founder of investment firm Gotham Partners
• Les Alexander, investor, founder of the Alexander Group, former owner of NBA's Houston Rockets
• Bill, Ted and Peter Alfond, investors; members of the :Category:Alfond family|Alfond family
• James Altucher, hedge fund manager and tech investor, founder of StockPickr
• Shari Arison, American-Israeli investor, owner of Bank Hapoalim; member of the Arison family
• Jeff Aronson, co-founder of Centerbridge Partners, former partner at Angelo, Gordon & Co.
• Cliff Asness, hedge fund manager, co-founder of AQR Capital
• Jules Bache, founder of J. S. Bache & Co.
• Ronald S. Baron, investor, founder of Baron Capital Management
• Joseph Ainslie Bear, co-founder of investment bank Bear Stearns
• Jordan Belfort, former stock broker, founder of Stratton Oakmont, Inc.
• Rebecka Belldegrun, Finnish-born investor, CEO of BellCo Capital; wife of Arie Belldegrun
• Bob Benmosche, investment banker, former president and CEO of the American International Group
• David Bergstein, founder of private equity firm Cyrano Group
• Bruce R. Berkowitz, founder of Fairholme Capital Management
• Paul P. and Zalman Bernstein, co-founders of investment-management firm Sanford C. Bernstein & Company
• Leon Black, co-founder of Apollo Global Management, LLC
• Lloyd C. Blankfein, former CEO of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
• Leonard Blavatnik, Ukraine-born British-American investor, founder of Access Industries
• Michael Bloomberg, co-founder of global financial services, software and mass media company Bloomberg L.P.
• Alfred S. Bloomingdale, co-founder of Diners Club International
• Richard C. Blum, founder of Blum Capital
• Ivan Boesky, former financier and insider trader, founder of Ivan F. Boesky & Company
• David Bonderman, co-founder of TPG Capital
• Bill Browder, co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management
• B. Gerald Cantor, founder of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.
• Arthur L. Carter, investment banker, co-founder of Carter, Berlind, & Weill
• Stanley Chais, former investment advisor and money manager
• Marshall Cogan, former partner at Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt and founder of the United Automotive Group
• Abby Joseph Cohen, advisory director at Goldman Sachs
• Peter A. Cohen, chairman and CEO of Cowen Inc.
• Steven A. Cohen, hedge fund manager, founder of Point72 Asset Management and S.A.C. Capital Advisors
• Gary Cohn, former COO of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; Chief Economic Advisor to President Trump
• Leon G. Cooperman, investor, hedge fund manager, CEO of Omega Advisors
• Mark Cuban, start-up investor, owner of the Dallas Mavericks
• Jon P. Diamond, co-founder of the Safe Auto Insurance Company
• Glenn Dubin, hedge fund manager, co-founder of Highbridge Capital Management
• Asher Edelman, Corporate raider
• Joseph Edelman, founder of hedge fund Perceptive Advisors
• David Einhorn, investor, hedge fund manager, founder of Greenlight Capital
• Lewis Eisenberg, co-founder of private equity firm Granite Capital International Group L.P.
• Michael R. Eisenson, co-founder of Charlesbank Capital Partners
• Steve Eisman, investor, co-founder of Emrys Partners, managing director at Neuberger Berman
• Israel "Izzy" Englander, investor, founder of Millennium Management, LLC
• Boris Epshteyn, Russian-born investment banker
• Jeffrey Epstein, financier, founder of Intercontinental Assets Group Inc. and J. Epstein Co.
• Andrew Fastow, former CFO of Enron
• Irwin Federman, General Partner of U.S. Venture Partners
• Steve Feinberg, co-founder of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.
• Karen Finerman, co-founder of hedge fund Metropolitan Capital Advisors
• Laurence D. Fink, financial executive, co-founder of BlackRock, Inc., the world's largest shadow bank
• William S. Fisher, investor, hedge fund manager, founder of Manzanita Capital Limited; Gap Inc. heir
• Lee Fixel, investor, partner at Tiger Management
• Dovi Frances, Israeli-American fincancier, founder of SG, LLC, a global advisory firm focused on UHNWI clients, and of venture capital firm Group 11
• John Frankel, British-American founder of ff Venture Capital
• Martin Frankel, investor, founder of Winthrop Capital; known for using astrology to make financial trading decisions
• Jacob A. Frenkel, Israeli-American chairman of JPMorgan Chase International
• Tully Friedman, co-founder of Hellman & Friedman, Friedman Fleischer & Lowe
• Jeremy Frommer, hedge fund manager, former co-CEO of RBC Capital Markets
• Richard S. Fuld Jr., former CEO of Lehman Brothers
• Stanley Gold, former president and CEO of Shamrock Holdings, Inc.
• Stanley Golder, co-founder of private equity firm GTCR LLC
• Marcus Goldman, German-born co-founder of Goldman Sachs; member of the Goldman-Sachs family
• David Gottesman, founder of First Manhattan Co.; member of the :Category:Gottesman family|Gottesman family
• Noam Gottesman, Israeli-born British-American hedge fund manager and investor, co-founder of GLG Partners, CEO of TOMS Capital
• Jonathan D. Gray, president and COO of the Blackstone Group, chairman of Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.
• Leonard I. Green, founder of Leonard Green & Partners, West Coast's largest LBO firm
• Alan Greenspan, former Chair of the Federal Reserve, founder of Townsend-Greenspan & Co. and Greenspan Associates LLC
• John Gutfreund, former CEO of Salomon Brothers
• Rich Handler, banker, chairman and CEO of independent investment bank Jefferies Group
• Joshua Harris, investor, co-founder of Apollo Global Management, LLC, owner of the New Jersey Devils and the Philadelphia 76ers
• Adrian and Nick Hanauer, venture capitalists
• Alfred S. Hart, Hungarian-born founder of City National Bank
• Andrew Hauptman, founder of investment firm Andell Inc. and owner of the Chicago Fire Soccer Club; son-in-law of Charles Bronfman
• Isaias W. Hellman, German-born banker, co-founder of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles, president of Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank
• Samuel J. Heyman, hedge fund manager and chairman of the GAF Materials Corporation
• Ben Horowitz, start-up investor, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz
• Carl Icahn, Corporate raider, founder of Icahn Enterprises
• Samuel Israel III, former hedge fund manager, founder of the Bayou Hedge Fund Group
• Kenneth M. Jacobs, CEO of Lazard
• Mitchell R. Julis, co-founder of the Canyon Capital Advisors hedge fund
• David Kabiller, co-founder of investment management firm AQR Capital
• Neil Kadisha, Iranian-born co-founder of investment firm Omninet Capital
• Irving Kahn, investor, co-founder of Kahn Brothers Group, Inc.
• George Kaiser, chairman of BOK Financial Corporation
• Robert S. Kapito, investor, co-founder of BlackRock, Inc., chair of the board of UJA-Federation of New York
• Steven Kaplan, co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management and minority owner of the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies
• Bruce Karsh, investor, co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, chairman of the Tribune Media Company
• Richard A. Kayne, co-founder of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisers
• Barry Klarberg, founder of Monarch Business & Wealth Management; co-owner of MLB's New York Yankees and MLS's New York City FC
• Seth Klarman, investor and hedge fund manager, founder of the Baupost Group; minority owner of MLB's Boston Red Sox
• Eugene Kleiner, Austrian-born venture capitalist who co-founded KPCB and is considered a pioneer of Silicon Valley
• Jerome Kohlberg Jr., co-founder of KKR & Co. L.P.
• Bruce Kovner, investor, hedge fund manager, chairman of CAM Capital
• Orin Kramer, hedge fund manager, founder of Boston Provident LP
• Peter S. Kraus, CEO of AllianceBernstein
• Henry Kravis, co-founder of KKR & Co. L.P.
• Rodger Krouse, co-founder of Sun Capital Partners, Inc.
• Joe Lacob, Silicon Valley investor, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, co-owner of NBA's Golden State Warriors
• Andrew A. Lanyi, Hungarian-born investor, founder of the Lanyi Group
• Marc Lasry, Moroccan-born hedge fund manager, co-founder of the Avenue Capital Group, co-owner of NBA's Milwaukee Bucks
• Henry Laufer, investor, former VP of Research at Renaissance Technologies LLC, co-founder of the Medallion Fund
• Jonathan Lavine, co-managing partner of investment firm Bain Capital and CIO of Bain Capital Credit; co-owner of NBA's Boston Celtics
• Solomon Lazard, French-born founder of Lazard Frères and Company
• Sayra Fischer Lebenthal, banker, co-founder of Lebenthal & Company; mother of Jim Lebenthal, grandmother of Alexandra Lebenthal
• Bennett S. LeBow, Chairman of the Board of the Vector Group, former owner of the Liggett Group
• Marc J. Leder, co-founder of Sun Capital Partners, Inc., co-owner of the Philadelphia 76ers
• Thomas H. Lee, founder of the private equity firms THL and Lee Equity Partners
• Henry, Mayer and Emanuel Lehman, German-born founders of Lehman Brothers; members of the Lehman family
• Al Lerner, former Chairman of the Board of credit card company MBNA and owner of NFL's Cleveland Browns
• Randy Lerner, investor, former owner of the MBNA Corporation; former owner of EPL's Aston Villa F.C.
• Dennis Levine, former managing director of Drexel Burnham Lambert
• Leon Levy, investor, former partner at Oppenheimer & Co.
• Peter B. Lewis, former chairman and owner of the Progressive Insurance Company
• Cy Lewis, former long-time Managing Partner of Bear, Stearns & Company
• Josh Linkner, CEO and Managing Partner of Detroit Venture Partners
• Greg Lippmann, hedge fund manager, co-founder of LibreMax Partners
• Daniel S. Loeb, hedge fund manager, founder of Third Point Management
• Solomon Loeb, German-born co-founder of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
• Howard Lorber, CEO of New Valley LLC
• Howard Lutnick, chairman & CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald & BGC Partners
• Bernie Madoff, former financier and chairman of the Nasdaq, founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC; Ponzi schemer
• Stephen Mandel, Jr., hedge fund manager, investor, founder of Lone Pine Capital, former managing director at the Tiger Fund
• Leo Melamed, Polish-born financial futures pioneer, chairman emeritus of CME Group Inc.
• James Melcher, hedge fund manager, founder of Balestra Capital Management; former Olympic fencer
• J. Ezra Merkin, investor, hedge fund manager, former president of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue; Madoff Ponzi scheme victim
• André Meyer, French-born investment banker, former senior partner at Lazard Frères & Co.
• Marc Eugene Meyer, French-born former president of Lazard Frères & Co.
• Marc Mezvinsky, investment banker, co-founder of Eaglevale Partners; husband of Chelsea Clinton
• Michael Milken, financier, junk-bond specialist, founder of the Milken Institute
• Eric Mindich, hedge fund manager, founder of Eton Park Capital Management
• Steven Mnuchin, former hedge fund manager; 77th United States Secretary of the Treasury
• David Morgenthaler, founder of Morgenthaler, one of the oldest private equity investment firms in the U.S.
• Sir Michael Moritz, British-American Silicon Valley venture capitalist, partner at Sequoia Capital
• Alfred Huger Moses, banker and investor who founded the city of Sheffield, Alabama
• Andrew M. Murstein, founder of investment company Medallion Financial Corp., former taxi medallion lending executive, owner of MLL's New York Lizards
• Arthur Nadel, former hedge fund manager, founder of Scoop Management Co.
• Ezri Namvar, Iranian-born founder of the Namco Capital Group and former owner of the Security Pacific Bank
• Jack Nash, German-born hedge fund pioneer, former chairman of Oppenheimer & Company, co-founder of the New York Sun
• Elkan Naumburg, German-born banker, founder of E. Naumburg & Co.
• Izak Parviz Nazarian, Iranian-American investor, managing partner at Omninet Capital; member of the :Category:Nazarian family|Nazarian family
• Roy Neuberger, financier, co-founder of Neuberger Berman
• Aviv Nevo, Romanian-born Israeli-American venture capitalist, founder of NV Investments; major shareholder in Time Warner
• Roy and Victor Niederhoffer, hedge fund managers
• Mark Nordlicht, American-Israeli hedge fund manager, founder of Platinum Partners
• Nelson Obus, hedge fund manager, co-founder of Wynnefield Capital, Inc.
• Daniel Och, investor and hedge fund manager, founder of the Och-Ziff Capital Management Group
• Bernard Osher, a founding director of World Savings Bank
• Jacob Ostreicher, investor
• Alan Patricof, one of the early pioneers of venture capital and private equity; co-founder of Apax Partners LLP and Greycroft
• David L. Paul, banker, founder of CenTrust Bank
• John Paulson, investor, founder of Paulson & Co. Inc.
• Nelson Peltz, investor, co-founder of Trian Fund Management. L.P.
• Jeffrey, Raymond and Ronald Perelman, investors
• Richard C. Perry, hedge fund manager, founder of Perry Capital LLC
• Carl Pforzheimer, former banker, co-founder of the American Stock Exchange
• Lionel Pincus, co-founder of private equity firm Warburg Pincus, LLC
• Danny Porush, former stock broker and chairman of Stratton Oakmont
• Victor Posner, LBO pioneer
• Michael F. Price, hedge fund manager, founder of MFP Investors LLC
• Nicholas, Karen, Jennifer and John Pritzker, investors; members of the Pritzker family
• Dan Rapoport, Latvian-born investor, founder of Rapoport Capital LLP
• Ira Rennert, industrial investor, founder of the Renco Group
• Tony Ressler, co-founder of Ares Management, L.P. and Apollo Global Management, LLC; owner of the Atlanta Hawks
• Marc Rich, Belgian-American former oil trader, hedge fund manager and founder of Glencore plc
• Larry Robbins, hedge fund manager, founder of Glenview Capital Management
• Stephen Robert, former chairman and CEO of Oppenheimer & Co. and Renaissance Institutional Management LLC
• George R. Roberts, co-founder of KKR & Co. L.P.
• Arthur Rock, early Silicon Valley venture capitalist, co-founder of Davis & Rock and Fairchild Semiconductor
• George Rohr, Colombian-born co-founder of private equity firm NCH Capital Inc.
• David S. Rose, start-up investor, founder of New York Angels
• Barry Rosenstein, hedge fund manager, founder of JANA Partners LLC
• Mack Rossoff, founder of independent investment bank Rossoff & Co.
• David René de Rothschild, banker; current chairman of Rothschild & Co; member of the Rothschild family
• Marc Rowan, co-founder of Apollo Global Management, LLC
• David M. Rubenstein, financier, co-founder of global private equity investment company The Carlyle Group
• Robert Rubin, former Treasury Secretary, director of National Economic Council, and chairman of Citigroup
• Samuel Sachs, co-founder of Goldman Sachs
• William Salomon, former managing partner of Salomon Brothers
• Arthur J. Samberg, founder of Pequot Capital Management
• Morris Schapiro, Lithuanian-born investment banker, founder of M. A. Schapiro & Company; known for negotiating the merger of Chase Bank and Bank of Manhattan
• Jacob H. Schiff, German-born banker; former leader of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
• Peter Schiff, CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.
• Rick Schnall, partner at private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice and minority owner of the Atlanta Hawks
• Alan Schwartz, Executive Chairman of Guggenheim Partners, former CEO of Bear, Stearns & Company
• Stephen A. Schwarzman, co-founder of the Blackstone Group
• Joseph Seligman, German-born co-founder of investment bank J. & W. Seligman & Co.
• Bruce Sherman, co-founder of wealth-management firm Private Capital Management and owner of MLB's Miami Marlins
• Eugene Shvidler, Russian-American oil tycoon, chairman of Millhouse Capital
• James Simons, hedge fund manager, co-founder of Renaissance Technologies
• Paul Singer, hedge fund manager, founder of the Elliott Management Corporation
• David M. Solomon, disc jockey and investment banker, CEO of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
• George Soros, Hungarian-American investor and business magnate, founder of Soros Fund Management, LLC
• James Speyer, former head of the banking firm Speyer & Co.; member of the Speyer family
• Robert B. Stearns, financier, co-founder of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc
• Saul Steinberg, Corporate raider
• Michael Steinhardt, investor and hedge fund manager, co-founder of Steinhardt Partners, chairman of WisdomTree Investments
• Lee Stern, futures and options trader and minority owner of MLB's Chicago White Sox
• Leonard N. Stern, investor, chairman and CEO of the Hartz Group and Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc.
• Marc Stern, chairman of the TCW Group, co-owner of NBA's Milwaukee Bucks and MLB's Milwaukee Brewers
• Barry Sternlicht, founder of the Starwood Capital Group
• Donald Sussman, financier, hedge fund manager, founder of Paloma Funds and New China Capital Management LLC
• Leonard M. Tannenbaum, founder of Fifth Street Asset Management
• David Tepper, investor, hedge fund manager, founder of Appaloosa Management
• Igor Tulchinsky, Belarus-born hedge fund manager, founder of WorldQuant, LLC
• Cliff Viner, hedge fund manager, co-founder of III Capital Management and AVM L.P., former co-owner of the Florida Panthers
• Jeffrey Vinik, former hedge fund manager, owner of NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning
• Paul Wachter, founder of Main Street Advisors, a VIP-focused financial and asset management advisory firm
• Eric M. Warburg, German-American co-founder of Warburg Pincus; member of the Warburg family
• James Warburg, German-born former banker and financial adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Paul Warburg, German-born former chairman of the Bank of the Manhattan Company and director of the Federal Reserve Bank
• Bruce Wasserstein, investment banker, former CEO of Lazard and co-founder of Wasserstein Perella & Co.
• Sanford I. Weill, banker & financier, former chairman and CEO of Citigroup Inc., co-founder of Carter, Berlind, Potoma & Weill
• Peter Weinberg, co-founder of Perella Weinberg Partners
• Boaz Weinstein, hedge fund manager, founder of Saba Capital Management
• Sholam Weiss, bankruptcy specialist
• Allen Weisselberg, CFO of the Trump Organization
• Maurice Wertheim, founder of Wertheim & Co.
• Nancy Zimmerman, hedge fund manager, co-founder of Bracebridge Capital
• Eric Zinterhofer, private equity financier, founding partner of Searchlight Capital; member of the Lauder family
• Barry Zubrow, founder of private investment firm ITB LLC, former CRO of JPMorgan Chase