Name
Charles Zegar
Charles Zegar
New York, New York
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Long Island University | Master of Science, New York University
United States
Bloomberg LP, Self Made
$2,200,000,000
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#1057 Billionaires 2019
#374 Forbes 400 2016
Charles Zegar is one of three billionaire cofounders of financial services and media giant Bloomberg LP. Zegar, who got a computer science degree at NYU, built the first software for Bloomberg LP's terminals. The son of a subway conductor, he was widowed as a young man and remarried in 2001. He and his current wife, Merryl Snow Zegar, donate to Jewish causes and inner-city education via their Zegar Family Foundation.
Zegar is a signatory of the Giving Pledge, a promise to donate at least half of his wealth to charitable causes.
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