BlackRock co-founder and president; chaired a fund raising for Israel
BlackRock co-founder and president · Person
Robert S. Kapito co-founded BlackRock in 1988 with Larry Fink and is its president and a director. BlackRock paid him $25.7M for 2025, up from $21.8M in 2024, and his share of a retention award tied to BlackRock's private-market funds was valued at $25.3M at the end of 2024. A 2022 Guardian headline, cited by Wikipedia, put his wealth at about $400M. Kapito helps lead the firm that Francesca Albanese's July 2025 UN report places, with Vanguard, among the largest institutional investors in companies it ties to Israel's genocide in Gaza, including Palantir, Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet. From July 2016 he chaired the board of UJA-Federation of New York, which by December 2023 had raised $156M for its Israel Emergency Fund since 7 October, $75M of it from the Wall Street community. In 2022, as prices soared, he offered his diagnosis of ordinary people's problem: 'We have a very entitled generation that has never had to sacrifice.'
BlackRock paid Robert Kapito $25.7M for 2025, up from $21.8M in 2024. He co-founded the firm the UN Special Rapporteur names among the largest owners of companies tied to Israel's genocide in Gaza. From 2016 he chaired UJA-Federation of New York, which by December 2023 had raised $156M for its Israel Emergency Fund.
Sources: Stocktwits, UN Human Rights Council (A/HRC/59/23), UJA-Federation of New York (PR Newswire)
Kapito's wealth was put at about $400M in 2022.
Sources: english.news.cn,
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Robert S. Kapito (6) 211,431 * 9,032 220,463
Rob Kapito is President and a Director of BlackRock ... Prior to founding BlackRock in 1988, Mr. Kapito was a Vice President in the Mortgage Products Group at The First Boston Corporation.
Robert S. Kapito 2025 $1,250,000 $7,000,000 $17,100,006 — $392,500 $25,742,506 President 2024 $1,250,000 $6,700,000 $13,299,637 — $533,737 $21,783,374
Robert S. Kapito President 2024 $ 1,250,000 $ 6,700,000 $ 13,299,637 — $ 533,737 $ 21,783,374
In addition, also for their personal safety, the Board requires Messrs. Fink and Kapito to utilize private airplane services for all business and personal air transportation and offers additional travel services for ground transportation.
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