Baron Funds: The Masters of Growth Investing On a recent sunny morning in New York City, Ron Baron, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Baron Capital, is standing and studying Sixteen Jackies, a famous painting of Jackie Kennedy by Andy Warhol that Baron purchased through a dealer. The office walls are adorned with dozens of paintings by Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and other modern art masters. In Baron''s corner office, Babe Ruth''s 1920 contract and a 1940 letter written by Albert Einstein about the plight of Jews in Europe hang on the walls