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Glenn Dubin
Born (1957-04-13) April 13, 1957 (age 67)
Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York
Nationality United States
Alma materStony Brook University (B.A.)
OccupationHedge fund manager

Glenn Dubin (born April 13, 1957) is the co-founder and CEO of Highbridge Capital Management, an asset management company based in New York City, and a founding board member of the Robin Hood Foundation.

Personal life

Glenn Dubin was born in 1957 in the Washington Heights section of upper Manhattan, which at the time was a neighborhood populated by Europeans fleeing Nazi Germany[2]. He is the oldest son of Harvey and Edith Dubin, a taxi driver who later worked in dress manufacturing, and a hospital administrator, respectively[3]. Dubin attended public school at Washington Heights' P.S. 132 and went on to Stony Brook University, where he graduated in 1978 with a degree in economics. He was also a member of the school’s football and lacrosse teams[4].

Dubin has been married to Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin, M.D. since 1994, and the couple has three children. Dr. Andersson-Dubin was born in Sweden where she was educated and began her medical training at the Karolinska Institute School of Medicine in Stockholm. She received her M.D. from UCLA in 1989 and is now an in-house physician at NBC Network[5]. Dr. Andersson-Dubin is also a former Miss Sweden (1980). The Dubins live in Manhattan and own property in Westchester County, Colorado, and Sweden.

Professional Life

Dubin began his career in finance as a retail stock broker at E. F. Hutton & Co. in 1978. He was joined at Hutton in 1984 by childhood friend Henry Swieca, where the pair started an asset management and brokerage group. They left to establish Dubin & Swieca Capital Management in 1989 after Shearson Lehman Holdings Inc. bought E. F. Hutton. In 1992 they started Highbridge Capital Management, naming the firm after the 19th Century aqueduct that connects Washington Heights with the Bronx.

Dubin and Swieca began Highbridge with $35 million in capital. Between 1993 and 2010, Highbridge’s stable of hedge funds grew to include: the Highbridge Long/Short Equity Fund, the Highbridge Asia Opportunities Fund, the Highbridge Statistical Opportunities Fund, the Highbridge Event Driven Opportunities Fund and the Highbridge Quantitative Commodities Fund. The firm expanded to include an asset management business in 2005, becoming one of the first alternative investment organizations to have mutual fund vehicles. Highbridge Principal Strategies, a private equity and credit business, was added in 2007[6].

JPMorgan Chase purchased a controlling stake in Highbridge in December, 2004[7]. The acquisition was structured over a five-year period and was reputedly worth more than $1.3 billion[8].

Philanthropy

In 1987, Dubin was asked by fellow hedge fund manager and close friend Paul Tudor Jones to join him and Peter Borish in a venture philanthropy project Jones had conceived and started. The resulting Robin Hood Foundation has raised and granted more than $1 billion to fight poverty, uses economic metrics to measure the effectiveness, or “relative returns” of its charitable grants[9]. All operating expenses of the foundation are paid by the board members (currently more than 30). Dubin has served on the board since since its founding, is a former Board Chair, and sits on the Jobs and Economic Security subcommittee.

In 2010, Dubin gave $5 million to Harvard University to establish the Dubin Graduate Fellowships for Emerging Leaders at the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Center for Public Leadership. The gift provides tuition for up to ten students each year, characterized as “strategic investments in outstanding individuals with demonstrated promise.”[10]

Glenn Dubin is also a trustee of the Mt. Sinai Medical Center. He and his wife funded the Dubin Breast Center at Mt. Sinai in 2010 to provide comprehensive integrated breast care in a patient-centered environment. The multidisciplinary Center is headed by co-directors Dr. George Raptis and Dr. Elisa Port[11].

In addition, the Dubins have funded the Dubin Family Athletic Performance Center at State University of New York at Stony Brook[12].

References

  1. ^ "The World's Billionaires". Forbes.com. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
  2. ^ "Washington Heights, Manhattan". Wikipedia. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
  3. ^ Chang, Victoria and Bator, Julia (2010). "Highbridge Capital Management: Building a Sustainable Organization," Stanford Graduate School of Business/Harvard Kennedy School, Case OB-77, p. 6.
  4. ^ "Athletics Receives $4.3M Gift for New Strength Facility". Stony Brook University. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
  5. ^ "About Us: Board of Directors". The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. Retrieved 29 October 2010.
  6. ^ "J.P. Morgan: Direct Hedge Funds". J.P. Morgan. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
  7. ^ "J.P. Morgan: Direct Hedge Funds". J.P. Morgan. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
  8. ^ "J.P. Morgan Asset Management to complete purchase of Highbridge". J.P. Morgan. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
  9. ^ "The legend of Robin Hood". Fortune Magazine. Retrieved 29 October 2010.
  10. ^ "Gift launches fellowship fund". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 29 October 2010.
  11. ^ "Eva Andersson-Dubin, MD and Glenn Dubin's donation establishes Dubin Breast Center". The Mt. Sinai Medical Center. Retrieved 29 October 2010.
  12. ^ "Athletics Receives $4.3M Gift for New Strength Facility". Stony Brook University. Retrieved 29 October 2010.

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