He also started his impressive resume young- in high school, he was not only a tuba player in the high school marching band, making tuba first chair at the Allstate band competition, he was a division champion tennis player, captain of the gridiron football team, and was even recruited to play football in college.

Cohen started his religious journey young too, notably skipping one of his high school football games for the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur.

[3] Cohen won the Smith Breeden Prize as one of the best three papers in the Journal of Finance (along with Karl Diether and Christopher Malloy) for his October 2007 edition publication "Supply and Demand Shifts in the Shorting Market.

He currently raises six children (Eva, Asher, Edith, Henry, Samuel, Oscar) in a kosher home in Belmont, Massachusetts with his wife, Nicole Cohen, a professor at BU.

Cohen considers his family his first priority - when asked to describe himself in a well-known CNBC article, he said, "Adoring father - everything else is a footnote.