David Alan Tepper is the founder of Appaloosa Management, which is a hedge fund investment firm based in Miami Beach, Florida. Tepper initially became interested in the stock market as a young boy watching his father trade stocks in his hometown of Pittsburgh. Today, as President and Founder of Appaloosa Management, Tepper has earned an international reputation for producing some of the highest returns amongst fund managers on Wall Street. He earned a Master of Science in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon in 1982.