Daniel Och
Daniel Och (born 1961) is the billionaire Chairman and CEO of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group - a hedge fund and asset management company. Och founded the firm in 1994.[1] The company currently oversees more than $46 billion.[2] The company has been embroiled in a number of controversies regarding its investments in Africa.[3]
He is the founder and a trustee of the Jane and Daniel Och Family Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non profit foundation based in New York. The foundation supports a number of pro-Israel causes. He received his B.S. in Finance from the The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[1]
Wealth
In 2015 Och was listed by Forbes at number sixteen in its ranking of the 'Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers & Traders'.[4] As of fiscal year 2014 his total calculated compensation was $1,141,613 and in 2015 his net worth was calculated at $3.9 Billion.[2] In 2015 he was ranked by Forbes as the 452nd richest billionaire in the world and the 150th richest billionaire within the United States.[2] [1] Och owns a 7,000 square-foot mansion in The Hamptons valued at more than $20 million.[5] He also owns a $41 million penthouse at 15 Central Park West and a $20.3 million mansion in Aspen, Colorado.[6]
Affiliations
- Och-Ziff Capital Management Group - (Chief Executive Officer, Executive Managing Director, Chairman of the Board of Directors and former President)
- OZ Management L.P. (Chief Executive Officer and Executive Managing Director)
- OZ Management LLC (President)
- Och-Ziff Management Europe Limited (Chief Executive Officer and Director)
- Och-Ziff Capital Management Hong Kong Limited (Officer and Director)
- Och-Ziff Japan Limited (Officer and Director)
- Och-Ziff India Private Limited (Officer and Director)
- Cyrus Capital Partners, L.P. (Founder)
- Goldman, Sachs & Co. (Vice President 1987 - 1999)
- U.S. Equities Trading (Head of Proprietary Trading in the Equities Division and Co-Head of U.S. Equities Trading)
- Robin Hood Foundation (Vice Chairman)
- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (Director)
- United Jewish Federation (Director)
- City Harvest (Director)
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (Trustee)
- Birthright Israel Foundation (Member of Executive Committee)[1] [7]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 bloomberg.com Och-Ziff Capital Managemen-A (OZM:New York). Accessed 17 June 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 forbes.com The Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers & Traders. Accessed 17 June 2015.
- ↑ powerbase.info Och-Ziff Capital Management Group. Accessed 19 June 2015.
- ↑ forbes.com The Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers & Traders. Accessed 17 June 2015.
- ↑ Charlene Adams, Billionaire Lane: From fashion designers to real estate tycoons and Wall Street financiers. Meet those who live on the East Coast's most exclusive 5-mile stretch with a private beach and helipad, Mail Online, 23 May 2015.
- ↑ Staff, Hedge Clippers Take On Daniel Och “The Wolf Of Wall Street”, Value Walk, 8 May 2015.
- ↑ Birthright Israel Foundation Website Board of Directors. Accessed 17 June 2015.