David Tepper Brief Biography

David Alan Tepper (born on September 11, 1957) is an American hedge fund manager and the founder of Appaloosa Management. His investment specialty is distressed companies. In recent years he's become known as a philanthropist, his largest gift going to Carnegie Mellon University, whose Tepper School of Business is named after him. He earned his BA in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1978 and his MBA (then known as an MSIA) from Carnegie Mellon in 1982. For the 2012 tax year, Institutional Investor's Alpha ranked Tepper No. 1 for earning a $2.2 billion payday.

David Tepper News

• The Almanac for July 9, the 190th day of 2019