Children's Scholarship Fund

Julian H. Robertson, Jr.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tiger Management L.L.C.

Founder, CSF-Charlotte

Julian H. Robertson, Jr. is an investor, environmentalist and philanthropist.

Mr. Robertson was born in Salisbury, North Carolina in 1932.  After graduating from the Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA in 1951 and the University of North Carolina in 1955, he served as an officer in the U.S. Navy.

Prior to co-founding Tiger in 1980, Mr. Robertson enjoyed a two decade career with Kidder Peabody and Company, beginning as a sales trainee and rising to become Chief Executive Officer of Webster Management Corporation, Kidder Peabody’s investment advisory subsidiary.

From initial capital of eight million dollars, Mr. Robertson built Tiger into the world’s largest hedge fund with capital of more than $23 billion. Tiger compounded at a gross rate of 31 ½ percent between its founding in 1980 and its closing in 2000.

Mr. Robertson also trained and developed a generation of “Tiger Cubs,” a cadre of analysts and portfolio managers, who have become some of today’s most successful hedge fund managers.  Today, Mr. Robertson maintains Tiger to manage his own investments and to seed independent hedge funds, run by high-achieving, young managers.

In 1996, Mr. Robertson and his wife, Josie, founded the Robertson Foundation to focus on large-scale, domestic, high impact grants in education, environment, religion, and medical research.  Among the Foundation’s major initiatives are active support of New York City’s public education reform, a merit-based scholarship program at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and combating global warming with market-based solutions.

Mr. Robertson is a member of the Board of Trustees of Environmental Defense, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine.  He is also a member of the National Board of Advisors of the Children’s Scholarship Fund and Vice Chairman and former President of the Board of Trustees of the Cancer Research Institute. He is Trustee Emeritus of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts as well as the Rockefeller University.