Barry rosenstein biography
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The tycoon who owns a record $147M mansion
Who is Barry Rosenstein, the New York financier who bought a Hamptons home for $147 million? In his recent book, “House of Outrageous Fortune,” about 15 Central Park West, author Michael Gross exposed a little about Rosenstein — a portrait that so infuriated the hedge funder that he complained to the building’s management. Here’s what has him so fired up:
Barry Rosenstein likes to tell a story about his mercurial rise to become one of the richest men in America.
While working for Merrill Lynch in the mid-1980s, he funnen that his Armani suits rubbed his colleagues the wrong way. His New Jersey upbringing lacked “the pedigree and patina of those WASP-y guys,” he has said.
So he cold-called Asher Edelman, an infamous finance guy who served, in part, as the basis for Michael Douglas’ character Gordon Gekko. Rosenstein talked his way into a job at his firm, which mixed hedging, arbitrage, investment banking and activism, and became a
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The Corporation of Brown University
Barry Rosenstein is the Managing Partner of JANA Partners LLC, an event-driven investment manager that he founded in 2001 which is located in New York. JANA focuses on companies with a compelling valuation and various catalysts to realize value. JANA also has a proven track record in activist investing and has been a successful activist in numerous companies including Apple, Tiffany's, Whole Foods, ConAgra, PetSmart, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Safeway, Ashland, Marathon Petroleum, McGraw Hill, CNET, and Kerr-McGee. Mr. Rosenstein graduated from Lehigh University in 1981 (Phi Beta Kappa) and earned a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business in 1984. Mr. Rosenstein is a trustee of Brown University, the US Olympic Foundation, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the 92nd Street Y in New York City and the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music Corporatio
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Barry Rosenstein
American hedge fund manager and billionaire
Barry S. Rosenstein (born 1960) is an American hedge fund manager and billionaire. He is the founder and managing partner of JANA Partners LLC, an activist hedge fund firm. He made $300 million over the merger of Whole Foods with Amazon in April–July 2017.
Early life and education
[edit]Barry Rosenstein was born in 1960.[2] He is the son of Herbert Rosenstein of West Orange, New Jersey, a senior partner in the tax accounting firm of Rosenstein, Schantz & Jacobson, and his wife, Harriet Wolf.[3]
Rosenstein graduated from Lehigh University in 1981 where he studied accounting.[4][5] He earned a master in business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.[5][6]
Investing career
[edit]Rosenstein first worked in the investment banking and merger departments of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.[7]
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