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Gabe Plotkin

American investor; founder and chief investment officer of Melvin Capital.

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Gabriel Plotkin

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founded

worked at

  • Citadel Primary record 3

    One year, early in his career, years before he founded Melvin.

involved in

  • Game Stopped? hearing witness; CEO of Melvin Capital Management Primary record 14

    Plotkin testified that Melvin Capital had no role in the trading platforms' decisions.

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  1. Dec 2014 Gabe Plotkin founded Melvin Capital
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  1. Testimony of Gabriel Plotkin, Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Melvin Capital Management, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, 18 Feb 2021. Primary record
    I am the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Melvin Capital.
    I want to make clear at the outset that Melvin Capital played absolutely no role in those trading platforms’ decisions.
  2. Citadel, Point72 Back Melvin With $2.75 Billion After Losses, Bloomberg News, 25 Jan 2021. Scholarship & press
    This year’s stumble is rare for Plotkin. His firm has returned an average 30% a year since it was started in December 2014 after nearly a decade working for Cohen.
  3. Game Stopped? Who Wins and Loses When Short Sellers, Social Media, and Retail Investors Collide (House hearing of 18 February 2021, Serial No. 117-3), U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2022. Primary record
    When I was 23-years-old, I worked at Citadel for 1 year.
  4. Memorandum on the 18 February 2021 full committee hearing “Game Stopped? Who Wins and Loses When Short Sellers, Social Media, and Retail Investors Collide”, House Committee on Financial Services, 15 Feb 2021. Primary record
    Gabriel Plotkin, Chief Executive Officer, Melvin Capital Management LP
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