Rob Kapito

Robert Steven Kapito (born February 8, 1957) is an American businessman and investor. He is a founder and president of the New York City-based investment management firm BlackRock. Early life and education Kapito was born into a working-class Jewish family. He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts (HBS) in 1983 after completing a BS degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Kapito met his wife Ellen when she was a student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Career Kapito joined First Boston in 1979 after graduating from Penn and started in the Public Finance Department. He was hired by Larry Fink to work at First Boston, where they were instrumental in pioneering the mortgage-backed security market in the United States.