The story of Larry Fink

2 Nov 1952 –

Larry Fink. Co-founder, chairman and CEO of BlackRock. Citizen of the United States.

Family. Lori Fink, wife: funded University of California, Los Angeles (May 2008).

1974

Larry Fink, educated at University of California, Los Angeles. BA, political science.

1976

Larry Fink, educated at University of California, Los Angeles. MBA.

1976–1988: Larry Fink worked at First Boston. Member of the management committee, managing director.

BlackRock’s 2026 proxy statement gives the same roles. Vanity Fair reported that his department lost $100 million in the second quarter of 1986, and that when he left in the spring of 1988 the firm made it known his departure was essentially forced; Fink says he was not fired. In 2024 he wrote that he lost $100 million on a series of bad trades at First Boston.

1988

Larry Fink founded BlackRock. Co-founder.

Larry Fink founded Blackstone Financial Management. Co-founder.

BlackRock dates its own founding to 1988, by Fink and seven partners.

Since 1988: Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock.

BlackRock describes the firm as growing under his leadership since its founding in 1988.

May 2008

Larry Fink funded University of California, Los Angeles. Donor, with his wife Lori Fink, $10M.

A joint gift that endowed the UCLA Center for Finance at the Anderson School, renamed the Laurence D. and Lori W. Fink Center for Finance and Investments.

2 Dec 2016 – 16 Aug 2017

Larry Fink, member of the President’s Strategic and Policy Forum. Member.

Named a member when the forum was announced on 2 December 2016. On 16 August 2017 he told BlackRock staff he had decided to resign, and President Trump disbanded the forum that day.

15 Aug 2025 –

Larry Fink, chair of the World Economic Forum. Co-chair of the Board of Trustees.

Named on an interim basis with André Hoffmann in August 2025.

Larry Fink, chair of NYU Langone Health and BlackRock.

Larry Fink, board member of the Museum of Modern Art.

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