Timothy Sykes is a famous American penny stock trader. He received $1.65 million from a $12,415 Bar mitzvah gift through day trading while in college. He appeared on Below Deck season 2 episode 10 as also season 5 episode 13 on Bravo network. Additionally, he created “Miss Penny Stock” in 2012.
Mark Spitznagel is a famous American investor and hedge fund manager. He is the CEO, founder, and owner of Universa Investments, a hedge fund management firm based in Miami. In addition, he established the Empirica Capital “tail-hedging” fund along with author and financial mathematician Nassim Nicholas Taleb in 1999.
Robert Soros (Full Name: Robert Daniel Soros ) is a popular American investor who is the founder of Soros Capital Management, a family office based in New York. Previously, Robert worked as the deputy chairman and president of his father’s firm, Soros Fund Management, until June 2017.
Ira Rennert ( Full Name: Ira Leon Rennert ) is a popular American billionaire businessman who works as the chairman and CEO of Renco Group. He began his career as a credit analyst on Wall Street in 1956. Ira also worked as a partner at Rubin, Rennert & Co. prior to launching his own business, I. L. Rennert & Co., in 1962.
Lauren Simmons is a famous American producer and writer who was a former stock trader for Rosenblatt Securities. She was the youngest and only current full-time female trader at the New York Stock Exchange when she was 22. He left Wall Street in December 2018 and was named to Ebony’s Power 100 list in 2018. In addition, she works as host and producer of the upcoming web series Going Public.
Daniel Och is a noted American billionaire hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is the chairman, CEO, and founder of Och-Ziff Capital Management. The firm is a global hedge fund and alternative asset management firm. Currently, he invests out of his single-family office, Willoughby Capital, and his new $750M SPAC, AJAX Holdings. Additionally, he has a net worth of US$3.6 billion, as of August 2021according to Forbes.
David E Shaw is a noted American billionaire scientist and former hedge fund manager. He is the founder of D. E. Shaw & Co. and was the former assistant professor in the computer science department at Columbia University. He was referred to as “King Quant” by Fortune magazine in 1996 for his firm’s pioneering role in high-speed quantitative trading. In addition, he turned to full-time scientific research in computational biochemistry in 2001.
Mohnish Pabrai is a noted Indian-American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He began his IT consulting and systems integration company, TransTech, Inc in 1991. He later sold his company in 2000 to Kurt Salmon Associates for US$20 million. In addition, he serves as the managing partner of the Pabrai Investment Funds which he founded in 1999.
John Meriwether is a famous American hedge fund executive. In 1994, he founded the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management but it collapsed in 1998. He later founded JWM Partners LLC in 1999. Meriwether opened his third hedge fund, named JM Advisors Management in 2010. In addition, he has been an owner of thoroughbred horses for a number of years and serves as a member of the board of directors of the New York Racing Association (NYRA).
Rebekah Mercer is an American heiress and Republican political donor. She works as the director of the Mercer Family Foundation. Her father is billionaire Robert Mercer who said that he had sold his stake in the news site Breitbart to his daughters in November 2017. In addition, she founded and co-founded the social networking service Parler in August 2018.