Newsday – He’s been called the richest Long Islander, and not a lot of people know who he is.
At an estimated $2.6 billion, James Simons’ net worth is greater than Cablevision’s Charles Dolan. A few times more than Computer Associates founder and Islanders owner Charles Wang. Other Long Islanders you’d consider? Not even close.
In fact, Simons is one of only three Long Islanders on Forbes Magazine’s annual list of the world’s richest people, and he’s No. 278 (Dolan is 355 and Home Depot co-founder Kenneth Langone is 548).
Ask his friends, and they’ll tell you that Simons, manager of a hedge fund based in East Setauket, is a private guy.
Make that a private guy who happens to have been in the public eye recently, making his presence known in the areas that are his passion: mathematics and science.
