John W. Rogers Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

John W. Rogers Jr.

American basketball player

Date of Birth: 31-Mar-1958

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Profession: financier, basketball player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About John W. Rogers Jr.

  • John Washington Rogers Jr.
  • (born March 31, 1958) is an investor, philanthropist and founder of Ariel Capital Management (now Ariel Investments, LLC) in 1983.
  • He is chairman and CEO of the company, which is the United States' largest minority-run mutual fund firm.
  • He has been a regular contributor to Forbes magazine for most of the last decade.
  • Active in the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign, Rogers was a leader of the 2009 Inauguration committee.Rogers was appointed as the Board President of the Chicago Park District for six years in the 1990s.
  • He has also was appointed as board member to several companies, as a leader of several organizations affiliated with his collegiate alma mater, and as a leader in youth education in his native Chicago.
  • In 2007, Rogers was honored with the Woodrow Wilson Award from Princeton University for the breadth and depth of his service to many organizations.
  • While a student at Princeton, he was captain of the 1979–80 Ivy League co-champion Princeton Tigers men's basketball team.Rogers was raised in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago's South Side, and graduated from the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools in 1976.
  • At the age of 12 his father started giving him dividend-paying stocks.
  • He went to college at Princeton University, where he used his free time to glean market information at his local stock brokerage and where he was influenced by Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street.He was a college basketball teammate of Craig Robinson, and he served as captain of the 1979–80 Ivy League co-champion Princeton Tigers men's basketball team.
  • He had a habit of perusing business journals and calling his broker from stadium payphones.
  • Rogers credits Pete Carril, his basketball coach, as his greatest college influence because Carril stressed precision and teamwork.Rogers studied economics at Princeton.
  • After graduating in 1980, he worked for William Blair & Company in Chicago.
  • A few years later, and with the financial backing of family and friends, he opened his own firm, starting with the Municipal Employees' Annuity & Benefit Fund of Chicago as his first account.

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