Rank #1423
Henry Swieca
Net worth $3.0B
Hedge funds · United States
- Born
- May 09, 1957
- Age
- 69
- Source
- Hedge funds
- Residence
- New York, New York
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 4
- Education
- Master of Business Administration, Columbia Business School; Bachelor of Arts/Science, SUNY Stony Brook
Net worth over time
Biography
- A Wall Street veteran, Henry Swieca cofounded hedge fund firm Highbridge Capital Management in 1992 with childhood friend Glenn Dubin.
- The duo sold part of the business to JP Morgan Chase in 2004 and the rest in 2009.
- After the sale Swieca opened Talpion Fund, which manages his own fortune. The name Talpion comes from the Biblical word Talpiot, meaning a castle's turret.
- Talpion's portfolio includes real estate and startup cash for new money management firms.
- A son of Polish holocaust survivors, Swieca started off his career at Merrill Lynch, where he got the job by knocking on the doors of Manhattan banks.
- Swieca learned stock investing from his dentist uncle, and turned to the market to fund his and his brother's education after losing both of his parents at age 19.
- Highbridge was named after an aqueduct that connected New York City's Washington Heights (where Swieca was raised) and the Bronx.