9. Glenn Dubin

Glenn Dubin is the Co-Founder and current Chairman and CEO of Highbridge Capital Management, which is an alternative asset management company. This billionaire hedge fund manager grew up in Washington Heights in Manhattan.

Dubin’s father was a taxi driver, who later worked in manufacturing company and his mother was a hospital administrator. He attended a public school and graduated in Economics from Stony Brook University. He was a member of the football and lacrosse teams.

He co-founded Highbridge Capital Management with his childhood friend, Henry Swieca. They met playing in the sandbox at a park when they were just kids. They both bonded over peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches but who knew they were actually future billionaire hedge funders.