10 Incredibly Wealthy Stock Brokers
3. Jon Corzine
Jon Stevens Corzine is the former CEO of Goldman Sachs and of MF Global. Corzine was born in central Illinois. He grew up in a small family farm in Willey Station, Illinois, near Taylorville. His father was a farmer as well as an insurance seller and his mother used to teach in an elementary school.
He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Corzine began his career in banking and finance and worked for Midwestern banks during and after his MBA. Later, he joined Goldman Sachs and eventually became the CEO and a leading advocate in the decision making when the company went public. He left the firm in 1999. After his departure from the firm, he received $400 million in IPO in 1999. He then became the U.S. senator and the governor of New Jersey. He then became the CEO of MF Global, which has filed for bankruptcy recently.
