Rank #902
Scott Kapnick
Net worth $4.7B
Private equity · United States
- Born
- Feb 09, 1959
- Age
- 67
- Source
- Private equity
- Residence
- Naples, Florida
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Doctor of Jurisprudence, The University of Chicago; Master of Business Administration, The University of Chicago; Bachelor of Arts/Economics, Williams College
Net worth over time
Biography
- Scott Kapnick is founder and CEO of HPS Investment Partners, one of the world's biggest alternative credit managers with $149 billion in assets.
- He spent 21 years at Goldman Sachs, rising to become co-head of investment banking and co-CEO of Goldman Sachs International.
- He left Goldman in 2007 to join hedge fund Highbridge Capital after its sale to JPMorgan, eventually building up its credit arm HPS.
- Kapnick was CEO of Highbridge from 2013 until 2016, when he and the principals bought HPS from JPMorgan in a carveout. Assets have since swelled.
- He sold HPS to BlackRock in July 2025 for around $12 billion in BlackRock stock.
- His father was Arthur Andersen CEO Harvey Kapnick, who left the now defunct accounting firm in 1979 after raising concerns over conflicts of interest.
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