Stephen Frank Mandel Jr. is an American hedge fund manager, investor, and philanthropist. He founded Lone Pine Capital in 1997, after working as a managing director at Tiger Management. As of August 2022, Forbes estimates his net worth at US$3.9 billion.
Mandel's investment career began at Mars & Co, where he worked as a senior consultant from 1982 to 1984. He then served as a consumer-retail analyst at Goldman Sachs from 1984 to 1990, before joining Tiger Management.