Bruce Stanley Kovner was born on April 25 1946 and is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist.
22 Facts About Bruce Kovner
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Bruce Kovner is chairman of CAM Capital, which he established in January 2012 to manage his investment, trading and business activities.
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From 1983 through 2011, Kovner was founder and chairman of Caxton Associates, a diversified trading company.
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Bruce Kovner is chairman of the Juilliard School and vice chairman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
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Bruce Kovner is on the boards of the Metropolitan Opera, and American Enterprise Institute.
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Bruce Stanley Kovner was born in New York City's Brooklyn borough to Jewish parents Isidore Kovner, an engineer who briefly played semi-professional football, and his wife, Sophie.
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Bruce Kovner spent his early years in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn with his parents and three siblings before the family relocated to suburban Los Angeles in 1953.
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Bruce Kovner was the student-body president of Van Nuys High School at 16, and an accomplished basketball player and pianist.
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Bruce Kovner went to Harvard College starting in 1962, a time marred by the hanging suicide of his mother back in his family's Van Nuys home in 1965.
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Bruce Kovner later claimed that this first, nerve-racking trade taught him the importance of risk management.
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Bruce Kovner was a director of Synta Pharmaceuticals from 2002 to 2016.
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In September 2011, Bruce Kovner announced his retirement from his position as CEO at Caxton, succeeded by Andrew Law.
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Bruce Kovner established CAM Capital in January 2012 to manage his investment, trading, and business activities.
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Bruce Kovner established The Bruce Kovner Foundation in 1996 to support organizations that promote excellence in the arts and education, initiatives that defend private enterprise and protect individual rights, and scholarly studies and research that strengthen American democratic principles.
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In 2012 Bruce Kovner donated $20 million to Juilliard to endow the school's graduate program in historical performance.
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Bruce Kovner donated a collection of music manuscripts to Juilliard in 2006.
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Bruce Kovner is vice chairman of Lincoln Center for the performing arts as well as a major funder of the redevelopment of Lincoln Center.
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Bruce Kovner is managing director of the Metropolitan Opera's board of directors.
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Bruce Kovner founded and was chairman of the School Choice Scholarships Foundation, which awarded scholarships to financially disadvantaged youth in New York City.
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Bruce Kovner has actively supported other charter schools, such as the Success Academy Charter Schools, where his wife Suzie serves on the board.
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Bruce Kovner is the former chairman of the board of trustees of the American Enterprise Institute.
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Bruce Kovner is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from The Juilliard School.