Rank #543
Vincent Viola
Net worth $7.1B
Electronic trading · United States
- Born
- Feb 12, 1956
- Age
- 70
- Source
- Electronic trading
- Residence
- New York, New York
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Doctor of Jurisprudence, New York Law School; Bachelor of Arts/Science, United States Military Academy
Net worth over time
Biography
- The son of a truck driver from Brooklyn, Vincent Viola started electronic-trading firm Virtu Financial in 2008 and took the company public in 2015.
- Market-maker Virtu completed a series of secondary offerings in May 2019 to help repurchase more than $500 million in stock from Viola.
- Viola splurged on real estate with stock sale proceeds, buying a beachfront Florida condo and spending $108 million on Arizona's tallest skyscraper.
- Viola is the owner of the NHL's Florida Panthers. He graduated from West Point in 1977 and New York Law School in 1983.
- In 2003 he founded the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point to provide education and research about global terrorism.
- Donald Trump appointed Viola to be Secretary of the Army in December 2016 but Viola withdrew his nomination two months later citing business conflicts.
- Viola was a former infantry officer who served in the 101st Airborne Division.
Financial assets
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