Jeff Greene
INVESTOR & DEVELOPER, PALM BEACH
As a young man, Greene worked as a waiter and busboy at The Breakers on Palm Beach. He sold circus tickets to put himself through college at Johns Hopkins University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and sociology. Greene later graduated from Harvard Business School with an MBA. He saw weaknesses in the housing market before its 2008 collapse, making hundreds of millions of dollars shorting subprime mortgage-backed securities. Today, his net worth is estimated at $7.5 billion. Greene lives in Palm Beach and has extensive investments and properties in Florida, New York and California. He and his wife, Mei Sze, founded the Greene School, a private school in West Palm Beach with 180 students through grade 10 that offers generous financial aid. Greene is an active philanthropist supporting a variety of charities. Greene and his wife are signatories to the Buffet-Gates Giving Pledge, a promise by the world’s wealthiest individuals and families to dedicate the majority of their wealth to charitable causes.
