Benjamin W. Navarro (born 1962) is an American billionaire businessman and the founder and CEO of Beemok Capital, a private investment firm, with a net worth estimated at $3.2 billion by Forbes in May 2026. He is also the founder of Sherman Financial Group and a significant minority owner of Credit One Bank, a major credit card issuer, having left Citigroup in 1997 to build a business that transformed the debt collection industry into a multibillion-dollar sector. Through Beemok, he oversees the Beemok Hospitality Collection, which acquired the 434-room Charleston Place hotel in 2021 and developed American Gardens, a downtown Charleston park honoring his father, Frank Navarro, a college football coach who posed for Norman Rockwell's The Recruit. His sports ventures include owning the Charleston Open and Cincinnati Open tennis tournaments via Beemok Sports & Entertainment, while his philanthropy focuses on education through the founding of Meeting Street Schools and the Meeting Street Scholarship Fund. Navarro grew up in Rhode Island, graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1984, and began his career at Chemical Bank and Goldman Sachs before rising to co-head of mortgage sales at Citigroup; despite past criticism of aggressive debt collection in 2011 and 2014, his companies passed 54 regulatory exams with zero violations in 2024.