Larry Fink

Larry Fink is the co-founder, chairman and chief executive of BlackRock, which he started with seven partners in 1988 and built into the world's largest asset manager. He began at First Boston in 1976, where he was among the first traders of mortgage-backed securities and became a managing director and member of the management committee. His annual letters to CEOs and shareholders are widely read for BlackRock's views on markets and corporate governance.