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James Scapa
$1.9B
$17M (0.90%)
Real Time Net Worth
as of 5/20/24
#1792 in the world todayReflects change since 5 pm ET of prior trading day.
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About James Scapa
- James Scapa left his job as a computer engineering consultant for General Motors to start Altair Engineering with two coworkers in 1985.
- He has been Altair's CEO since its founding and took the company public in 2017. He owns 24% of Altair's shares.
- Based in Troy, Michigan, Altair provides software in engineering simulation, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence.
- Scapa grew up in New York as the son of Greek immigrant Holocaust survivors and graduated from Columbia before leaving the East Coast.
Wealth History
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Forbes Lists
#1851
Personal Stats
- Age
- 67
- Source of Wealth
- Software, Self Made
- Residence
- Atherton, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 4
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Columbia University; Master of Business Administration, University of Michigan
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In Their Own Words
I have a sense of the opportunity being so large. Math and algorithms are going to drive all the decisions of the future, so I think we were sort of a rocket sitting on the launching pad.
James Scapa
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