The Best Investment Professionals

Describe the most impressive investment professional you've come across during your careers? What made this guy/girl so impressive? Private Equity or Hedge fund Rainmaker? Maybe what firm were they from?

@APAE" , @CompBanker" , @Layne Staley" , @TippyTop11" , @GridironCEO" , @takenotes08" , @Frank Slaughtery" , @Going Concern" , @SSits" , @Dingdong08" , @BlackHat" , @BTbanker" , @ArcherVice" , @GoodBread" , @shorttheworld" , @IlliniProgrammer" , @In The Flesh" , @rufiolove" , @Frieds" ... and anyone else who I apologize for forgetting.

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