Carl Icahn

Carl Celian Icahn is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder and controlling shareholder of Icahn Enterprises, a diversified conglomerate holding company based in New York City, formerly known as American Real Estate Partners.

• Carl Icahn is one of Wall Street’s most successful investors and has been shaking up corporate America for decades.
• Icahn’s primary investing vehicle is publicly traded Icahn Enterprises. He also runs an investment fund made up of his personal cash and money belonging to Icahn Enterprises.
• He spent the first months of the Trump Administration advising Donald Trump on regulatory overhaul, but left the position amid controversy.
• Icahn grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens. He graduated from Princeton with a degree in philosophy in 1957.
• He has donated about $200 million to what is now the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.