Leon Cooperman

February 3, 2021 @ 4:15 pm EST

Leon Cooperman is the founder of Omega Advisors, Inc., which he ran for 27 years before converting it to a family office at the end of 2018. At its height, Omega Advisors managed more than $10 billion of client funds. Lee started his career at Goldman Sachs, spending his first 22 years in the Investment Research Department as Partner-In-Charge, Co-chairman of the Investment Policy Committee and Chairman of the Stock Selection Committee. In 1989, he became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and was Chief Investment Officer of the equity product line. While at Goldman Sachs, for nine consecutive years, Cooperman was voted the number one portfolio strategist in the Institutional Investor “All-America Research Team” survey