1. Michael Edward Novogratz was born on November 26,1964 and is an American investor, formerly of the investment firm Fortress Investment Group.
19 Facts About Michael Novogratz
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Michael Novogratz is currently CEO of Galaxy Investment Partners which focuses on investments in cryptocurrency.
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Michael Novogratz was state of Virginia high school wrestling runner-up before serving as Princeton Wrestling captain.
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Michael Novogratz was first team All-Ivy League in both 1986 and 1987.
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Michael Novogratz took a salesman position for Goldman in Tokyo in 1992, and eventually Jon Corzine sent him to Hong Kong to run a trading desk for the firm.
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In March 2002, Michael Novogratz joined Fortress Investments in time to join Wesley Edens, Robert Kauffman, Randal Nardone and Peter Briger, Jr.
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Michael Novogratz is the CEO of Galaxy Investment Partners, a cryptocurrency investment firm.
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At a 2022 cryptocurrency conference, Michael Novogratz boasted that he was "only guy in the world that's got both a Bitcoin tattoo and a Luna tattoo".
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New York Governor David Paterson appointed Michael Novogratz to sit on the Hudson River Park Trust's board of directors in 2010.
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Michael Novogratz serves as a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets.
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Michael Novogratz is the chairman and founder of Beat the Streets, a non-profit organization which fosters the sport of wrestling in New York City public schools.
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Michael Novogratz serves on the board of the Acumen Fund, NYU Langone Medical Center, Princeton Varsity Club, Boards of Creative Alternatives of New York, PAX, the School for Strings, and The Jazz Foundation of America.
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Michael Novogratz founded and serves as the chairman of the board of the School for Strings.
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Michael Novogratz is the honorary chairman of USA Wrestling Foundation and the chairman of The Friends of the Hudson River Park.
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Michael Novogratz has been a booster for the US National Wrestling Team and an official spokesman for USA Wrestling.
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Michael Novogratz was named the 2010 USA Wrestling Man of the Year and an Outstanding American by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2007.
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Michael Novogratz was ranked 962 on the March 2008 Forbes list of world billionaires with a net worth of $1.2 billion.
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Michael Novogratz is Governing Board Chair of The Bail Project.
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Michael Novogratz's sister Jacqueline Novogratz is founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, while his brother Robert Novogratz is a designer who has been profiled in the Bravo television series 9 by Design.