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Daniel Och

Chairman of the Board; Chief Executive Officer and Executive Managing Director of the Company and Oc

Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC (OZM)

Industry: Finance

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Daniel Och, 47, joined our Board in November 2007 in connection with our initial public offering. Mr. Och is our founder, Chief Executive Officer, an Executive Managing Director and Chairman of our Board. He is also our Chief Investment Officer and an officer and/or director of each of our indirect foreign operating subsidiaries, Och-Ziff Management Europe Limited, Och-Ziff Capital Management Hong Kong Limited, Och-Ziff Consulting (Beijing) Company Limited, Och-Ziff Japan Limited and Och-Ziff India Private Limited, as well as Chief Executive Officer and an executive managing director of each Och-Ziff Operating Group entity. Prior to founding Och-Ziff in 1994, Mr. Och spent 11 years at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was a Vice President. Mr. Och began his career at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Risk Arbitrage Department and was later Head of Proprietary Trading in the Equities Division and Co-Head of U.S. Equities Trading. Mr. Och has a B.S. in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.


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