Ken Griffin

Founder & CEO, Citadel LLC
$45.97B
$1.5B (3.4%)
as of 11/07/24

About Ken Griffin

Ken Griffin founded and runs Citadel, a Miami-based hedge fund firm that manages $63 billion in assets.

Griffin founded Citadel in 1990 but first began trading from his Harvard dorm in 1987. He put a satellite dish on the roof to get real-time stock quotes.

Citadel Securities, one of Wall Street's biggest market-making firms, is responsible for one of every four stock trades in the U.S.

Griffin has given some $2.3 billion to philanthropic causes, including $300 million to Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 2023; the graduate school of arts and sciences bears his name.

In January 2024, Griffin said he would pause his support for Harvard, citing its handling of antisemitic incidents on campus.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Hedge funds

Residence

Miami, Florida

Marital status

Divorced

Birth date

10/15/68 (age 56)

Number of children

3

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Harvard University

Self-made

self-made

Ken Griffin’s fortune is worth

766K

troy ounces of gold

707K

median U.S. household

460K

median U.S. income

0.919%

U.S. credit card volume

0.184%

GDP of the United States

0.135%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Griffin's first job was selling Franklin Mint collectibles.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

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