38 Bill Hwang
Tiger Asia Management
$250 million
Bill Hwang’s success is a classic immigrant rags-to-riches story. When he came to the U.S. from South Korea as an 18-year-old in 1982, Hwang could barely speak English, but that didn’t hold him back. Six years later he had graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, earned an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and become one of Julian Robertson Jr.’s
