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Perot Dynasty Names New Investment Chief

Tom Burroughes

26 March 2019

The Texas-based Perot family, renowned for business and for producing a US Presidency challenger, Ross Perot, has appointed a senior hedge fund figure as its new investment chief, this publication can confirm.

According to his Linkedin profile, Boaz Sidikaro is president and CIO of , having previously been executive managing director at Och-Ziff Capital Management.

He worked at that organization from August 1998 to March this year. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BSc in accounting and finance.

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Sidikaro takes the reins from Steve Blasnik, the family’s chief investment officer of more than 30 years. Blasnik was a lawyer with no prior investment experience, the WSJ said. Perot Investments also runs an aircraft-leasing business, has an investment in a holding company of radio stations and regularly takes stakes in other businesses. 

The family’s wealth originates in Perot’s 1984 sale of his data-services company Electronic Data Systems Corp to General Motors Co. for $2.6 billion. GM two years later bought out Perot. Perot and his son, H Ross Perot Jr, later started and sold Perot Systems to Dell for $3.9 billion.