Daniel Och began his career at Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. in 1982 in the Risk Arbitrage Department, and rose to become the Head of Proprietary Trading in the Equities Division and Co-Head of U.S. Equities Trading. In 1994, Mr. Och left Goldman Sachs and founded the asset management firm, Och-Ziff with $100 million of capital from the Ziff Family. Mr. Och led the firm’s $1.15 billion IPO in 2007 and scaled the firm to $50 billion in assets under management. During Mr. Och’s 26-year tenure as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Och-Ziff, the firm generated an annualized gross return well in excess of the S&P 500 Index, representing a cumulative return on initial capital that is multi