Shlomo Elisha Wiesel was born on June 6,1972 and is an American businessman, hedge fund manager, social activist, and philanthropist.
21 Facts About Elisha Wiesel
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Elisha Wiesel worked for Goldman Sachs for 25 years, serving as its chief information officer for three years, until 2019.
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Elisha Wiesel currently co-runs the Niche Plus multi-manager hedge fund, the first fund of ClearAlpha Technologies, where he is a founding partner and the chief risk officer.
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Elisha Wiesel is the chairman of Israeli fintech start-up vendor management firm entrio, and on the board of directors of American financial data and software company FactSet.
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Elisha Wiesel's father, Elie Wiesel, was a Holocaust survivor, author, professor, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient of Hungarian Jewish and Romanian Jewish descent, whose hometown was Sighet, Romania.
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Elisha Wiesel became a social justice activist and a translator, translating 14 of her husband's books from French to English.
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Elisha Wiesel was raised on the Upper West Side and Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, attending Modern Orthodox yeshiva Ramaz on the Upper East Side, and suburban New Jersey.
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Elisha Wiesel said: 'I love you, and I would walk down the street with you any time, anywhere.
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Elisha Wiesel became a managing director in 2002, and a partner in 2004.
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Elisha Wiesel later served as the chief risk officer of its securities division, and global head of its securities division desk strategists.
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In January 2017, when Wiesel was 44 years old, he succeeded R Martin Chavez as Goldman's chief information officer, overseeing Engineering.
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In December 2019 Elisha Wiesel left Goldman Sachs after a 25-year career at the firm.
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Elisha Wiesel was considering options that included traveling the world, computer games, and teaching, while intrigued by the health care company that Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jamie Dimon were building, and committed to spending more time working on matters relating to his father such as deciding on the disposition of his papers.
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In November 2020 Elisha Wiesel joined Israeli Tel Aviv-based fintech start-up vendor management firm entrio, as chairman of its board of directors.
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At entrio, Elisha Wiesel focuses on helping the firm expand and partner with more banks and investors.
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In May 2023, Elisha Wiesel and quantitative investment firm AQR Capital Management alumnus Brian Hurst launched and began co-running the Niche Plus multimanager hedge fund, the first fund of ClearAlpha Technologies, where he is a founding partner and CRO.
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Elisha Wiesel organized fundraisers and has served as a board member for Good Shepherd Services, a Brooklyn-based after-school program charity that provides support for at-risk youths and their families, at Goldman beginning in 2013.
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Elisha Wiesel became well known for organizing, producing, and co-creating from 2012 to 2015 the content of the popular all-night Midnight Madness problem-solving scavenger hunt throughout New York City, popular among Wall Street professionals.
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In December 2022, taking a stand together against the increasing instances of racism and antisemitism in the US, Wiesel joined New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Rev Al Sharpton, Vista Equity Partners CEO and Carnegie Hall Chairman Robert F Smith, Baptist Minister Conrad Tillard, and World Values Network founder and CEO Rabbi Shmuley Boteach to host 15 Days of Light, celebrating Hanukkah and Kwanzaa in a unifying holiday ceremony at Carnegie Hall.
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Elisha Wiesel is passionate about bringing attention to the plight of the Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic group that lives in a region in China.
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Elisha Wiesel was as of 2020 a board member of the progressive Zionist organization Zioness, founded by Amanda Berman.