1. Mike Vranos was born in Worcester, Massachusetts to Alexander and Aglaea Mike Vranos, both of Greek descent.
18 Facts About Mike Vranos
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Mike Vranos was then raised in Ellington, Connecticut, United States.
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Mike Vranos began pursuing a PhD in Mathematics, before beginning his work on Wall Street.
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Mike Vranos started work at Kidder Peabody after graduation from Harvard in 1983.
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Mike Vranos was the youngest Managing Director in the 130-year history of Kidder Peabody.
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Mike Vranos was noted for having turned his collateralized mortgage obligation trading role into a money-making machine.
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In 1991, Mike Vranos was named Kidder Peabody's Man of the Year.
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However, as market conditions grew more severe, Mike Vranos left to start his own firm in late 1994.
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In late 1994, Mike Vranos founded Ellington Management Group, which grew into a $21 billion company.
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Mike Vranos founded the firm with Laurence Penn, whom Vranos knew at Harvard and who was in charge of Lehman Brother's mortgage securities training before co-founding Ellington with funding from Ziff Brothers Investments.
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In 2014 Mike Vranos opened an office for Ellington Management in London, England in order to expand into the European market.
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In June 2007, Mike Vranos launched a private placement of a new entity, Ellington Financial LLC, to institutional investors.
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Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT, chaired and founded by Mike Vranos, went public on the NYSE after its IPO in late 2013, trading under the ticker symbol EARN.
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In 1981, Mike Vranos was declared Mr Teen Connecticut in the state's bodybuilding championships, and he became known as "Captain Iron" in bodybuilding circles.
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Mike Vranos is known for breaking up business meetings to issue armwrestling challenges.
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Mike Vranos supported both Christopher Dodd and Barack Obama on the Democratic side and Rudy Giuliani on the Republican side of the 2008 Presidential Election.
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Mike Vranos is a contributor to and former director of Stamford Shelter for the Homeless and the East Harlem School.
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Mike Vranos established the Michael and Anna Vranos Graduate Fellowship Fund in the Life Sciences, the Vranos Family Junior Faculty Development Fund for Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, and the Vranos Family Graduate Research Fellowship in Developmental and Regenerative Biology, all at Harvard University.