Randal Alan Nardone is the charismatic founder of Fortress Investment Group LLC. Aside from being the co-founder, Randal Nardone is also a principal and director at the company, not to mention its CEO (Chief Executive Officer) as well.
Randal Nardone is no ordinary executive. The finance genius didn’t start with finance as his line of interest and future career path. Instead, he got a B.A (Bachelor of Arts) in English and Biology from the University of Connecticut. After which he got a J.D (Juris Doctor) from the Boston University School of Law. Nardone did initially pursue law as a career and one his earliest position was that of a partner and member of the executive committee at Thacher Proffitt, and Wood. It wasn’t until 1997 that Randal Nardone joined BlackRock Financial Management Inc., as a principle that his career in the financial sector took off.
After a short stint at USB, Randal Nardone founded his firm, Fortress Investment Group LLC in 1998. With the success and expansion of the firm he helps conceive, Nardone is now a certified billionaire. Ranking in at number 557 of the Forbes’s World Billionaires List and with a net worth of $1.8 billion, Nardone has definitely proved his mettle.
What makes Randal Nardone’s success especially inspiring is that his wealth and position in the industry is entirely an outcome of his hard work. He is an entirely self-made individual who has been able to excel in the field of finance without receiving any formal education in the field. His innate sensibility has enabled him to start one of the biggest hedge funds managing firms in the industry today.
His background in law has definitely helped him in gaining the peoples’ skills needed so much in finance. He has the charm and the charisma to convince people and trust him with their investment even in times of deep financial crisis. This makes him a true leader and an inspiring individual who can accomplish anything he sets his mind to. There is only one thing you can call a person who is able to succeed no matter what route they take, and that is a genius.
