Bruce Karsh (born October 10, 1955) is an American lawyer and investor. In the early 1980s he was an appellate clerk to current Supreme Court of the United States justice Anthony M. Kennedy, and later worked at O'Melveny & Myers, Sun Life Insurance Company and the TCW Group. He co-founded Oaktree Capital Management in 1995, later becoming the firm's President and in the process becoming a billionaire. As of March 2013 according to Forbes magazine he has a net worth of $1.65 billion