José E. Feliciano

The Puerto Rico native cofounded private equity rm Clearlake Capital in 2006. Today it oversees $43 billion in assets and boasts some of the industry’s best returns. He and his wife, Kwanza Jones, committed $20 million last year to their alma mater, Princeton, the largest gift from Black and Latino donors in its history. “If you give [people] an equal playing eld,” Feliciano says, “you will see excellence in many groups, who perhaps look a little bit di erent.”