LEON G. COOPERMAN

$3.2

BILLION  SELF-MADE SCORE: ( SOURCE: HEDGE FUNDS AGE: 76 RESIDENCE: BOCA RATON, FL PHILANTHROPY SCORE:

The son of a Bronx plumber joined Goldman Sachs’ research department the day after graduating from Columbia Business School and helped build the firm’s over $1 trillion asset management division. He founded hedge fund Omega Advisors in 1991. In 2018, after settling insider trading charges brought by the SEC regarding a small pipeline stock, without admitting or denying guilt, he converted Omega into a family office.