Larry Fink

Current Company

BlackRock — Chairman & CEO

The Most Powerful Man in Finance

Larry Fink co-founded BlackRock in 1988 and built it into the world’s largest asset manager, overseeing over $10 trillion in assets — more money than the GDP of every country on Earth except the United States and China. Larry Fink, who started his career at First Boston where he helped pioneer mortgage-backed securities, founded BlackRock with the vision of building a risk management-first investment firm. The company’s Aladdin technology platform, which models risk across massive portfolios, became BlackRock’s competitive moat.

Larry Fink’s annual letters to CEOs have become major events in the corporate world, read by executives, investors, and policymakers globally. Larry Fink has used these letters to advocate for long-term thinking, corporate purpose, and more recently, the financial implications of climate change — positions that have made him both influential and controversial. As Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink wields more influence over corporate governance and capital allocation than perhaps any other individual in global finance.