Louis Bacon ’81

Louis Bacon ’81

Chairman
Moore Capital Management
New York

Louis Bacon is founder, chairman, chief executive officer, and principal investment manager of Moore Capital Management, LP. Moore Capital, founded in 1989, is a private investment management firm that invests in the global financial markets and private equity markets.

Headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Washington, D.C., and London, Moore Capital provides investment management services to its institutional and high net worth clients through several privately offered funds, including two global diversified hedge funds, as well as funds that concentrate in the global fixed income and emerging market sectors.

Mr. Bacon is also the founder and chairman of the Moore Charitable Foundation, Inc. He established the foundation in 1992 to provide financial support to nonprofit organizations that focus primarily on land and water conservation.

Prior to founding Moore Capital in 1989, Mr. Bacon was a senior vice president — futures at Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc. He previously held positions at Walter N. Frank & Co., a NYSE specialist firm, and at Bankers Trust.

A native of North Carolina, Mr. Bacon earned an MBA in finance from Columbia Business School and holds a BA in American literature from Middlebury College in Vermont, for which he serves as a trustee.

Listing Column: 1

  1. César Alierta ’70

    Chairman and CEO, Telefónica, S.A., Spain
  2. Louis Bacon ’81

    Chairman, Moore Capital Management, New York
  3. Robert M. Bakish ’89

    President and CEO, Viacom International Media Networks, New York
  4. Andrew F. Barth ’85

    Chairman, Capital Guardian Trust Company, California
  5. Wolfgang Bernhard ’88

    Member of the Board of Management and Head of Daimler Trucks, Daimler AG, Germany
  6. Jean-Luc Biamonti ’78

    Chairman, Société des Bains de Mer, Monaco

Listing Column: 2

  1. Daniele D. Bodini ’72

    Chairman Emeritus, ACP Group, New York
  2. Hanzade V. Dogan Boyner ’99

    Chairman of the Board, Dogan Gazetecilik, Turkey
  3. Anne M. Busquet ’78

    Principal, AMB Advisors, LLC, New York
  4. Daniel M. Cain ’72

    Founding Partner and Chairman, Cain Brothers, New York
  5. Russell L. Carson ’67

    Co-Founder and General Partner, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, New York

    Chair Emeritus, Board of Overseers
  6. Max C. Chapman Jr. ’69

    Chairman, Gardner Capital Management Corp., New York
  7. Arnold L. Chavkin ’77

    Managing Director, Pine Brook Road Partners, LLC, New York

Listing Column: 3

  1. Jerome A. Chazen ’50

    Founder and Chairman, Chazen Capital Partners, LLC, Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Liz Claiborne, Inc., New York, Chairman Emeritus, Board of Overseers
  2. Christopher Wai-Chee Cheng ’79

    Chairman, Wing Tai Corporation Ltd., Hong Kong
  3. Giuseppe Ciardi ’81

    Caledon Partners, England
  4. Howard L. Clark Jr. ’68

    Consultant, Barclays Capital, New York
  5. Geoffrey J. Colvin ’74

    Partner, CEW Partners

    New York
  6. Patrick Combes ’78

    Chairman and CEO, Viel & Cie and Compagnie Financière Tradition, France

Listing Column: 4

  1. Leon G. Cooperman ’67

    Chairman and CEO, Omega Advisors, Inc., New York
  2. Ramzi Dalloul ’64

    Managing Director, Astra Horizons, England
  3. Ronald Doornink ’79

    Executive Chairman, Turtle Beach, California
  4. Mark F. Dzialga ’90

    Managing Director, General Atlantic, Connecticut
  5. Norman Eig ’65

    ROJ Inc., New York
  6. Carol B. Einiger ’73

    President, Post Rock Advisors LLC, New York
  7. R. Bradford Evans ’70

    Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley, New York
  8. Robert S. “Shell” Evans ’68

    Chairman of the Board, Crane Co., Connecticut