Paul Singer
Paul Singer is the Founder, President, Co-CEO, and Co-CIO of Elliott Management, one of the world’s most formidable activist funds. He is a member of the firm's Management, Risk, Valuation and Global Situational Investment Committees. Singer is a hedge fund mogul and activist investor known for his high-profile and often combative dealmaking. In addition to his corporate responsibilities, he is an active philanthropist who has played a leadership role in supporting research and scholars in the areas of free-market economics, rule of law and transparency, health care delivery innovation, and the U.S. national security. He is also a strong opponent of raising taxes for the wealthiest 1% of taxpayers and opposes aspects of the Dodd Frank Act.
Paul Singer Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder, President, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Chief Investment Officer
Academic History
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J.D., Law
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B.S., Psychology
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Founder and General Partner, Elliott Associates
Board of Fellows, Harvard Medical School
Advisory Member, Marketable Assets
Founder, The Paul E. Singer Foundation
Co-Founder, Start-Up Nation Central
Singer founded his hedge fund firm, Elliott Management, in 1977 with $1.3 million. The firm now has some $65 billion in assets under management.
Under his leadership, the firm has expanded into various investing strategies, including commodity trading, portfolio management, and activist investing.
He famously spent 15 years warring with the government of Argentina over bond payments, which resulted in a $2.4 billion payout to his firm in 2016.
Elliott took over beleaguered soccer club AC Milan in 2018 and sold it for $1.2 billion to RedBird Capital Partners in 2022.
RECOGNITIONS
The Independent has described him as "a pioneer in the business of buying up sovereign bonds on the cheap, and then going after countries for unpaid debts."
Fortune described him as one of the "smartest and toughest money managers" in the hedge fund industry.
A number of sources have branded him a "vulture capitalist", largely on account of his role at EMC, which has been called a vulture fund.
He has been featured and profiled in numerous financial media outlets and publications, including Forbes, Bloomberg, The New York Times, Financial Times, Business Insider, Fortune, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, Institutional Investor, and MarketWatch.
PHILANTHROPY
Singer is active in supporting LGBT equality efforts. According to The New York Times, he was “instrumental in the successful campaign to legalize same-sex marriage in New York.”
He is the Co-Founder of Start-Up Nation Central, an organization committed to solving global problems through deepening ties between Israel’s start-up ecosystem and the global innovation economy.
He is also Chairman of The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.