He was Tiger Management’s first college intern, joining the firm as a 19-year-old sophomore at Columbia University in December 1994. ­Matthew Grossman, 34, continued at Tiger as an energy analyst under macro analyst Dwight Anderson until 1999. He joined SAC Capital in February 2001, after 18 months as a portfolio manager at Credit Suisse. At SAC he worked closely with founder Steven Cohen, eventually building and managing SAC’s fundamental, long-short equity unit. Grossman left in 2008 to launch New York–based Plural Investments — a $500 million, long-short equity firm, of which he is CEO and CIO. It was hardly an ideal moment to be starting a hedge fund venture, but investors say they have been more than impressed with the results.

Return to index and article, Hedge Fund Rising Stars Shine Through the Gloom.