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Ken Griffin
Born in 1968 in Florida, Ken Griffin founded Citadel and built it into one of the world's preeminent hedge funds and market makers. He began trading convertible-bond arbitrage from his Harvard dormitory room and grew Citadel Securities into a firm that handles roughly a quarter of all U.S. equity trades, making him a defining figure in modern financial-market infrastructure.
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