Saltzman is executive director of the Robin Hood Foundation, the hedge fund-heavy non-profit that supports education and anti-poverty programs in New York City.

Raised on the Upper East Side, Saltzman attended Trinity and Brown and earned a master's in public health at Columbia before starting his career in the city's social service bureaucracy. As a staffer at the Department of Health, he worked with homeless families and on AIDS education programs and spent three years with the city's Board of Education. In 1989, Saltzman signed on as co-director of the Robin Hood Foundation, which had been established two years earlier by hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones, who later recruited pals Peter Borish and Glenn Dubin. The foundation soon attracted attention for adopting a "venture philanthropy" approach to giving: Beneficiaries must perform against certain metrics to continue receiving funding and those that fail to meet the Foundation's guidelines are swiftly dropped from the roster. Since its inception, Robin Hood has dispensed some $500 million to hundreds of local initiatives, including soup kitchens, charter schools, job-training centers, and AIDS prevention programs.

One of the most high-profile charity groups in the city, Robin Hood may be best known for the long list of moguls with whom it's associated, making Robin Hood's glitzy annual gala one of Wall Street's biggest nights. A bevy of A-list stars perform (Beyoncé Knowles, Jay Z, the Rolling Stones) and attendees bid on extravagant auction items. Ron Perelman once paid for a hockey lesson from Wayne Gretzky, Harvey Weinstein auctioned off walk-on role in a Martin Scorsese movie, and Lachlan Murdoch auctioned a cruise around Sydney with him and dad, Rupert Murdoch. [Image via Getty]