George Soros — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Founded Double Eagle in 1969, which later became Quantum Fund, growing to $25 billion in assets under management by 2011.
Established Soros Fund Management in 1970.
Known as "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England" for profiting $1 billion from shorting the pound sterling during the 1992 Black Wednesday crisis.
Formulated the general theory of reflexivity for capital markets, based on his philosophy studies.
Donated over $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, with $15 billion already distributed.
Earned a BSc and MSc in philosophy from the London School of Economics.

Biography

George Soros, born Schwartz György on August 12, 1930, is a Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist. He survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary as a teenager and later moved to the United Kingdom, where he studied philosophy at the London School of Economics, earning a BSc in 1951 and an MSc in 1954.

Soros began his career in British and American merchant banks before establishing his first hedge fund, Double Eagle, in 1969.