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Roy Gary Niederhoffer (b. in 1966) is an American hedge fund manager and philanthropist. Niederhoffer founded R. G. Niederhoffer Capital Management, Inc., in 1993, and serves as its President. The R. G. Niederhoffer Diversified Program is reported to have returned +60% in 2000, +51% in 2008, and overall have had long-term returns over +17% annualized return from 1999 through March 2009. His firm’s assets under management were reported to be $943 million as of August 2010. Niederhoffer was noted for his efforts to provide relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of (The Harmony Program ) (which provides music education to underserved New York City Public School students) and Concert Artists Guild, and has been on the board of the Kaufman Center (consisting of the Special Music School, Lucy Moses School, and Merkin Concert Hall). He created the Niederhoffer Foundation, which is active in music education, Jewish causes, and aid to the needy. Niederhoffer is also the Chairman of the Board of NYCO Renaissance, a group seeking to revive the New York City Opera. ==Early life== Niederhoffer was raised in Great Neck, New York. His father, Arthur Niederhoffer (1917–1981), was a professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the author of several books on the police and criminology including “Behind the Shield”, “The Ambivalent Force", and “The Police Family”, as well as a 20-year veteran of the New York City Police Department. His mother, Elaine Niederhoffer (1925–2006), was an English teacher, author, and editor. At age 13, he and a classmate founded a company called Software Innovations, which sold computer games such as Alien Invasion for the TRS-80 microcomputer. In 1982, when Niederhoffer was 16, the firm changed its name to Microvations, Inc. It soon thereafter employed over 30 people, mostly his classmates, and produced over 450 individual titles by 1983. Though the company closed when Niederhoffer left for college at Harvard, his interest in computers continued.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Two Freshman Entrepreneurs Put Computer Careers on Hold )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roy Niederhoffer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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