Tony Ressler (Full Name: Antony P. Ressler ) is a popular American billionaire businessman who is the co-founder of Apollo Global Management alongside brother-in-law and fellow billionaire Leon Black. He is also the co-founder of Ares Management and a minority owner of the Milwaukee Brewers. Tony is also the principal owner of the Atlanta Hawks. In 1997, Tony co-founded Ares Management with retired Apollo Global Management co-workers John H. Kissick and Bennett Rosenthal, who joined the team from the global leveraged finance group at Merrill Lynch. Following university, Tony served at Drexel Burnham Lambert finally reaching senior vice president in the high-yield bond department with responsibility for the new issue/syndicate desk.
Raj Rajaratnam (Full Name: Rajakumaran Rajaratnam ) is a popular Sri Lankan-American retired hedge fund manager and founder of the Galleon Group, a New York-based hedge fund management firm. He is the author of his memoir, Uneven Justice: The Plot to Sink Galleon published in 2021 featuring the events surrounding his insider trading conviction and the prosecutorial overreach he issues led to it. On October 16, 2009, Raj was arrested by the FBI for insider trading, which also made the Galleon Group fold.
Gabe Plotkin ( full name: Gabriel Plotkin ) is a famous American businessman who is the founder of Melvin Capital Management. He is also the founder of Tallwoods Capital LLC and the majority owner of the Charlotte Hornets. In June 2023, he purchased the Charlotte Hornets from majority owner, Michael Jordan along with Rick Schnall.
Nelson Peltz is a popular American billionaire businessman and investor who is the founder of Trian Fund Management together with Peter W. May and Edward P. Garden. He now has $8.5 billion in assets under management. Nelson is the non-executive chairman of Wendy’s Company, Sysco, and The Madison Square Garden Company. Previously, Nelson worked as a director of H.J. Heinz Company, Mondelēz International, and Ingersoll Rand and a retired CEO of Triangle Industries.
John Overdeck is a famous American hedge fund manager and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and co-chairman of Two Sigma Investments. The fund uses a variety of technological methods, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and distributed computing, for its trading strategies. In addition, Forbes stated his net worth was $6.1 billion as of March 2019.
Mark Nordlicht is a well-known American founder and former CEO of Platinum Partners. He was convicted of fraud in 2019 and he won a new trial in July 2023. He is also the founder of the Westchester Torah Academy (WTA) donating substantial funds to the yeshiva. In addition, he filed for bankruptcy, claiming he had only $137,000 in his name.
Victor Niederhoffer is a popular American hedge fund manager, champion squash player, bestselling author, and statistician who is the Author of The Education of a Speculator published in 1998. He worked as a finance professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1967–1972). In 1965, while still at college, Victor co-founded with Frank Cross a company named Niederhoffer, Cross, and Zeckhauser, Inc., an investment bank that marketed privately held firms to public companies.
Mala Gaonkar is a well-known American businesswoman. She worked as a former portfolio manager at the investment firm Lone Pine Capital. She is the head of the hedge fund SurgoCap Partners. Gaonkar began SurgoCap Partners, a hedge fund that was launched on January 3, 2023, after she left Lone Pine Capital in 2022. In addition, she is a published short story writer and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Chase Coleman III ( Full Name: Charles Payson “Chase” Coleman III ) is a popular American billionaire who is the hedge fund manager and founder of Tiger Global Management. As of July 2023, Chase’s net worth was US$8.5 billion and Forbes lists him as the 258th wealthiest person in the globe.
Steven Mnuchin (Full Name: Steven Terner Mnuchin ) is a popular American investment banker and film producer who worked as the 77th United States Secretary of the Treasury as part of the Cabinet of Donald Trump from 2017 until 2021. Working for a full presidential term, Steven was one of the few high-profile members of Trump’s cabinet whom the president did not send away. His work was as a trainee at the investment bank Salomon Brothers in the early 1980s, while still learning at Yale. He is also the founder of Liberty Strategic Capital a Washington DC-based private equity firm.
