Forty-six-year-old
Jacob Gottlieb loves investing. He’s been in love with investing since the 7th
grade. Gottlieb also loved school. He earned a degree in economics from Brown
University. And then he earned a medical degree from New York University. Medicine
and investing were his passions when he worked for St Vincent’s Hospital in New
York City. Being on the front line of healthcare showed Jacob that his real
calling was not prescribing drugs, but investing in healthcare companies. So he
hung up his long white lab coat, and he went to work for Sanford C. Bernstein
& Co. Sanford C. Bernstein & Co focuses on healthcare industry
investments.
Gottlieb
decided to offer his investing talents to the Merlin Biomed Group for a short
time, and then he joined Balyasny Asset Management. Balyasny gave him the
credibility to start his own hedge fund firm. Jacob’s startup, Visium Asset
Management became a reality in 2005. Visium was his baby, and that baby grew
into an investment firm with more than $8 billion in assets under management.