Russell Abrams is an American hedge fund manager and entrepreneur who is the founder of Russellcar, a taxi cab rent-to-own company in Buenos Aires.
[1] Abrams started a career on Wall Street working at Goldman Sachs Asset Management developing quantitative models and doing research for Fischer Black, co-developer of the Black–Scholes options pricing model.
[2] In 2001, Abrams founded Titan Capital Group,[3][4][5] which was one of the first volatility arbitrage funds[6][7] and at its height had over $1 billion AUM.
[11][12] The company offers credit to women in order to help them rent-to-own taxis.
Abrams helped fund an endowment for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award.