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Melville fund manager early Facebook friend

Rockwell Global Capital manager Vincent Napolitano began buying

Photo credit: Barry Sloan | Rockwell Global Capital manager Vincent Napolitano began buying up stock in Facebook almost a year ago. His fund now has about a $20-million investment in Facebook, which announced earlier this week that it will become a publicly traded company. (Feb. 1, 2012)

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Vincent Napolitano, social network fund manager at Melville-based Rockwell Global Capital, began buying up stock in Facebook almost a year ago, mostly from former employees who looked to cash out on the issues they were given when they joined the company.

Little by little, Napolitano, 40, bought up shares. His fund now has about a $20-million investment in Facebook, which announced earlier...

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