The Five Richest Alumni From Dartmouth College

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Continuing to take a look at some of the wealthiest people on the planet and what schools they came from, today we are going to take a look at Dartmouth College. Located in Hanover, New Hampshire, this ivy league school spreads itself across many successful fields with the Geisel School of Medicine, the Thayer School of Engineering and even the Tuck School of Business. Dartmouth only has around 4,200 undergraduate students but is giving them one of the best educations around that many have put to good use and earned a lot of money with.

Here are the five richest alumni from Dartmouth College.

5. Steven Roth – $1.1 Billion

Steven Roth took control of the real estate company Vornado and ended up making millions from buying out the skyscrapers in New York City. From here he began to purchase different markets in the U.S. like Chicago. He is currently working on a project to design and develop a new train station and office building that would replace Penn Station under Madison Square Garden in New York City.  Some consider Roth to be greedy, but the man knows how to execute a plan and bring companies profit.

4. Stephen Mandel – $1.6 Billion

Mandel came out of Dartmouth’s business school and started working at Goldman Sachs. He eventually broke off and started his own firm called Lone Pine which manages $27 billion… Mandel still serves on the board at Dartmouth as well as being on the board for Teach for America.

3. Anthony Pritzker/William Conway, Jr. – $3.1 Billion

These two were actually featured in my Richest Alumni from University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business article so we don’t need to spend as much time with this one. Conway, Jr. owns a private equity firm called Carlyle Group that brings in a ton of money. Pritzker  also runs a private equity [and venture capital] firm with his brother called The Pritzker Group. They are actually heirs to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, as if the successful firm wasn’t enough…

2. Trevor Rees-Jones – $4.6 Billion

Rees-Jones was actually at one point a bankruptcy attorney but one day came across some large acreage that was worth $500 million. From there, he started an oil operation with investors and built it into selling to Chevron and Enerplus for $2 billion and then also selling his pipeline for $1 billion. Rees-Jones is just a pure businessman that knows how to make deals at the right time and has built up a huge $4.6 billion.

1. Leon Black $5.5 Billion 

Leon Black just knows the market so well that to make money he just has to go find companies to buy that he knows will be profitable at some point. Most recently he’s bought large portions of Twinkies, Chuck E. Cheese, and CEC Entertainment, dumping $1 billion into them. Black is an investor who is smarter than the rest and has built up a net worth of $5.5 billion.

Written by Blaise Hopkins

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