Bill Ackman

Bill Ackman is CEO of Pershing Square, a leading investment firm with $30 billion of assets under management. Mr. Ackman founded Pershing Square in 2004.

Pershing Square principally makes investments in a concentrated portfolio of high-quality, simple, predictable, cash-generative durable growth businesses. Pershing Square often works with its portfolio companies as an engaged and active investor to help create substantial long-term value.

Prior to founding Pershing Square, Mr. Ackman co-founded Gotham Partners in 1992, a research-driven, value-oriented investment firm that managed public and private equity investments. Before Gotham, Mr. Ackman began his career in real estate investment banking at Ackman Brothers and Singer, Inc.

Mr. Ackman is co-trustee of The Carob Trust, an entity dedicated to revitalizing core American principles and institutions. He is also co-trustee of The Pershing Square Foundation, a family foundation established in 2006 to support exceptional leaders and innovative organizations that tackle important issues and deliver scalable and sustainable global impact. Pershing Square Philanthropies, which includes The Pershing Square Foundation, has committed more than $930 million in grants and investments in target areas including health and medicine, education, economic development, and innovation.

Mr. Ackman currently serves as Executive Chairman of the board of Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. and as CEO and Chairman of Pershing Square SPARC Holdings, Ltd. He has previously served on the boards of numerous private and public companies. In addition, he served as a member of the Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Board of Dean’s Advisors of Harvard Business School.

Mr. Ackman holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Harvard College.