Over a five-decade career, LEON COOPERMAN has loomed large as one of the most prominent players on Wall Street, first as a senior partner at Goldman Sachs, where he spent twenty-five years, and then as the founder and chief strategist of his own highly successful hedge fund, Omega Advisors. Born to immigrant parents in the Bronx, he is a graduate of Hunter College and the Columbia Business School. Mr. Cooperman has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including The Horatio Alger Award, honorary doctorates from both Hunter College and Roger Williams University, and the Columbia Business School's Distinguished Leadership in Business Award. He and his wife, Toby, have two sons and three grandchildren, and live most of the year in Florida.