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Nationality
  
American

Net worth
  
2.3 billion USD (2015)

Role
  
Entrepreneur


Name
  
Joe Mansueto

Alma mater
  
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Full Name
  
Joseph Daniel Mansueto

Born
  
September 3, 1956 (age 68) (
1956-09-03
)

Known for
  
Founder and CEO of Morningstar, Inc.

Education
  
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

Organizations founded
  
Morningstar, Inc.

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Joseph Daniel Mansueto (born September 3, 1956) is an American billionaire entrepreneur; the founder, majority owner and executive chairman of Morningstar, Inc.

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Early life and education

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Joe Mansueto was born in Munster, Indiana, the son of Mario Mansueto, an Italian doctor. He attended Munster High School and graduated with a bachelor's and master's degrees in Business Administration from the University of Chicago.

Career

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In 1984 Mansueto founded Morningstar out of his home with $80,000. Morningstar went public in May 2005.

Mansueto purchased the financial magazines Inc. and Fast Company in June 2005. He was a limited partner in the publication of the entertainment magazine Time Out Chicago from 2005 to 2013.

As of June 2008, Mansueto owned about 60.4% of Morningstar common stock. In 2011, his majority ownership of Morningstar gained him inclusion on the Forbes World's Billionaires list, with a net worth at time of publication of $1.6 billion.

In September 2016, Morningstar announced that it had appointed Kunal Kapoor as chief executive officer, effective January 2017, with Mansueto becoming executive chairman at the same time.

Philanthropy

Rather than going on boards, Mansueto prefers to just chat with people to help with a specific task. "It's a better use of my time, rather than sitting through long board meetings," Mansueto has said. In May 2008 it was announced that Mansueto and his wife Rika pledged $25 million to the expansion of the main University of Chicago library. The new wing, called the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, designed by Chicago-based architect Helmut Jahn opened to the public on May 16, 2011.

As of December 2010, Mansueto was the only Chicagoan on the list of American billionaires pledging to give away half of their wealth, as part of The Giving Pledge by Warren Buffett.

Personal life

In 1988 Mansueto married Japanese American Rika Yoshida, a Morningstar analyst. She has said it took her five dates to realise he was genuinely "nice and kind", rather than being on his best behavior while they got to know each other. They have three children and live in a newly constructed home in Lincoln Park estimated to cost $22 million to build. Mansueto keeps strict work hours, 8:30 a.m. to 5 or 6 p.m., with an occasional Saturday at the office. He enjoys early morning jogs along Lake Michigan and reading the occasional annual report. Mansueto's younger brother John died in 2003 of West Nile virus.

References

Joe Mansueto Wikipedia


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