Ken Griffin has a total net worth of $27.2 Billion USD.
According to Si.com, he is capable of providing a huge amount of financial backing for the consortium.
Robinhood's biggest customer of PFOF: Citadel Securities. The market maker, not the hedge fund. Confusing but the same person owns them both.
Citadel Securities : 40% retail investment traffic
Citadel Hedge Fund: 35B asset management
Ken Griffin: 21B networth
— Crayon Clown (@JamesCrayon) February 6, 2021
Griffin has ownership of 85% in Citadel LLC, which is the largest market maker in the United States.
Moreover, he is the second richest person in Illinois and the 45th richest person in America.
According to his Citadel biography, he graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in Economics and began trading from his dorm room in 1987.
In 2002, he also established Citadel Securities, which reportedly has over 1600 clients.
As per reports, the businessman has donated $45 million to community programs in cities such as Chicago and Miami.
Also has invested more than $1.3billion for various philanthropic causes, which promote education, medical research and reduce recidivism.
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