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Finance Business Leaders

Founders, chief executives and investors shaping finance. 15 of 66 profiles published so far.

Brian Moynihan, chairman and CEO of Bank of America
Finance

Brian Moynihan

The lawyer who took over Bank of America in the wreckage of the financial crisis and spent more than a decade rebuilding it into a steady giant.

Todd Boehly, co-founder and chief executive of Eldridge Industries
Finance

Todd Boehly

The financier behind Eldridge who assembled a sprawling empire across sports, media and insurance, from the Los Angeles Dodgers to Chelsea Football Club.

Finance

Marc Lasry

The Moroccan born distressed debt investor who built Avenue Capital into a Wall Street force and turned a bet on the Milwaukee Bucks into a championship and a fortune.

Finance

David Blitzer

The Blackstone dealmaker who built a multibillion dollar investment business and then assembled a sports empire so broad he became the first person to own equity across all five major US leagues.

Finance

David Einhorn

The value investor and championship poker player who built Greenlight Capital, famously bet against Lehman Brothers before its collapse, and became one of Wall Street's sharpest voices.

Finance

Andy Sieg

The wealth management veteran who built Merrill Lynch's advisory business into a powerhouse before crossing to Citi to lead its global push into managing the money of the rich.

Charlie Scharf, chairman and chief executive of Wells Fargo
Finance

Charlie Scharf

The banking veteran and protege of Jamie Dimon who ran Visa and BNY Mellon before being brought in to clean up Wells Fargo after its scandals.

Finance

Chase Coleman

The most successful of Julian Robertson's Tiger Cubs, who founded Tiger Global and turned an early bet on technology stocks and startups into a multibillion dollar fortune.

Finance

Joe Mansueto

The investor who started Morningstar in his apartment to bring transparency to mutual funds, built it into a financial data powerhouse, and later bought a soccer club.

Peter Orszag, chief executive and chairman of Lazard
Finance

Peter Orszag

The economist who ran the federal budget office under President Obama and then crossed to Wall Street, rising to lead the investment bank Lazard as its chief executive.

Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund
Finance

Yasir Al-Rumayyan

The governor of Saudi Arabia's vast sovereign wealth fund and chairman of Aramco, the dealmaker steering hundreds of billions into sports, technology and the kingdom's transformation.

Finance

Gunjan Kedia

The Indian-American banker who rose through State Street, BNY Mellon and US Bancorp to become the bank's first woman chief executive, a leader of a top US lender.

Finance

Jennifer Piepszak

The JPMorgan lifer who ran the bank's biggest businesses and became its first woman chief operating officer, one of the most powerful figures in American finance.

Michael Moritz, venture capitalist
Finance

Michael Moritz

The Welsh journalist turned legendary venture capitalist who backed Google, Yahoo and PayPal at Sequoia Capital, becoming one of the most successful investors in history.

Finance

Ted Pick

The lifelong Morgan Stanley banker who rose through its trading and investment banking ranks over three decades to become chairman and chief executive of the Wall Street firm.