Wilbur Ross eyes a profit from British anger at banks. Laurence D. Fink (MBA ’76) Laurence D.
Fink, chairman and chief executive officer of BlackRock Inc., is chairman of the executive and management committees. In addition, Fink is a trustee and president of BlackRock Funds, the firm's open-end fund family, and a director of several of BlackRock's offshore funds. Prior to founding BlackRock in 1988, Fink was a member of the management committee and managing director of the First Boston Corporation. Laurence D. Fink. Laurence Douglas "Larry" Fink (born 1952)[1][2] is the chairman and chief executive officer of BlackRock, an American multinational investment management corporation.[3] BlackRock is the largest money-management firm in the world by assets under management.[4] Early life and education[edit] Fink grew up in a Jewish family[5] in Van Nuys, California, where his mother was an English professor and his father owned a shoe store.[4] He earned a BA in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1974.[2] He then received an MBA at the UCLA Graduate School of Management in 1976.[2][6] Career[edit] Fink started his career in 1976 at First Boston, a large New York-based investment bank.
Fink added as much as $1 billion to First Boston’s bottom line.