Leon Cooperman — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Omega Advisors since 1991, an investment advisory firm managing over $3.3 billion in assets.
Organized Omega Advisors, Inc., a private investment partnership, after leaving Goldman Sachs.
Spent 25 years at Goldman Sachs, serving as partner-in-charge of investment research and later as chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Voted the number one portfolio strategist in the Institutional Investor 'All-America Research Team' survey for nine consecutive years while at Goldman Sachs.
Received an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1967 and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Charged with insider trading by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2016, settling for $4.9 million in 2017 without admitting wrongdoing.

Biography

Leon G. Cooperman is an American billionaire investor and hedge fund manager. He is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Omega Advisors, a New York-based investment advisory firm that he organized after leaving Goldman Sachs.

Omega Advisors manages over $3.3 billion in assets under management, primarily consisting of his personal wealth. He retired in 2016 and converted Omega to a family office.