Rank #3141
Anne Dinning
Net worth $1.2B
Hedge funds · United States
- Born
- Jan 02, 1963
- Age
- 63
- Source
- Hedge funds
- Residence
- New York, New York
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Single
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Doctorate, New York University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Washington
Net worth over time
Biography
- Anne Dinning helps lead D.E. Shaw, a quantitative hedge fund firm managing roughly $65 billion, as a part of its executive committee.
- The Seattle native joined billionaire David Shaw's firm in 1990, after receiving her Ph.D. in computer science from New York University.
- Dinning, who originally wanted to become an academic, started off building computer algorithms to forecast Japanese stocks.
- In 2002, Shaw handed over the day-to-day management of his firm to an executive committee, which included Dinning and other senior executives.
- Dinning has donated more than $300 million to her Corabelle Lumps Foundation, which supports Partners in Health and the Robin Hood Foundation.
- When Dinning first joined D.E. Shaw, the firm reportedly had 20 employees and was operating out of a loft with unfinished ceilings and exposed pipes.
- She sits on the boards of Math for America, which provides resources and training to STEM teachers, and Robin Hood, which fights poverty.