Karen Backfisch-Olufsen

Karen Backfisch-Olufsen is well known because she is a former wife of Jim Cramer, a well known American TV personality. She had a career in working in the hedge fund of Steinhardt and in Cramer Company together with her then husband.


Jim is a well known American personality and he is a bestselling anchor and also a former hedge fund manager that worked as the personal guide of the viewers in how they can navigate the Wall Street Jungle.

Karen was born in the city of United States of America. She is of American nationality and white by ethnicity. She finished the studies at the State University of New York at the Stony Brook. When she finished the studies, she started the career working in a hedge fund.

After working for some years, Jim and Karen Backfisch-Olufsen started their own company. Before this, she worked like an assistant to vice president of the Lehman and she was helping in building portfolio of the managers.

Karen Backfisch-Olufsen got married to Jim in the year 1988 and they had a relationship of many years. The two came to know each other when they were working at the hedge fund. They fall in love and they got married after knowing each other for 5 years.

The two lived a happy family and they had two children, Emma and Cece Kramer. The husband was always supportive of what she was doing and motivated her to achieve even more.

After being together for over 21 years, they decided to divorce and they say that it is because of their personal reasons. From the time they separated, Karen decided to keep a low profile and she is not too much in the media. Afterwards, Jim became involved with Lisa Detwiler and they got married in 2015 in Brooklyn of New York.

Karen Backfisch-Olufsen had earned enough net worth and she is believed to have at least 500 thousand dollars. She has blonde eyes with brown hair.

Jim Cramer is among a famous personality of the television. He was born in the year 1955. He worked as a manager of Hedge fund and he was the co-founder for TheStreet.com. He is a bestselling author. He got the B.A at Harvard College and he showed some interest in the journalism. His family is a Jewish family and when he was 11 years old, he started to sell ice cream so that he can make some money.

The first book he wrote was Confession of a Street Addict. After this one, he continued and wrote different books on different topics like Sane Investing in Insane World and Watch TV, Get Rich. He was a famous television presenter for Mad Money with Jim and it was airing at CNBC. His new wife Lisa Detwiler works as a broker in real estate.

Last Modified: Mar 7, 2020


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