Rank #70
Marilyn Simons & family
Net worth $32.5B
Hedge funds · United States
- Born
- Jan 04, 1951
- Age
- 75
- Source
- Hedge funds
- Residence
- East Setauket, New York
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Marilyn Simons is the widow of hedge fund legend Jim Simons, who died in 2024 at age 86.
- She got a Ph.D. in economics from Stony Brook University, where she met Jim.
- She chairs the $4.5 billion (assets) Simons Foundation, which is the primary funder of Math for America.
- Simons also sits on the boards of Stony Brook's foundation and Rockefeller University, and she chairs the board of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.