Igor Tulchinsky

Igor Tulchinsky is Founder, Chairman and CEO of WorldQuant, a global quantitative asset management firm with 1,100+ employees and 27 global offices. Prior to founding WorldQuant in 2007, Igor spent 12 years as a statistical arbitrage portfolio manager at Millennium Management. As CEO of WorldQuant, Igor provides vision, leadership and both strategic and tactical guidance to Research, Portfolio Management and other parts of the organization.  

Igor is also the Founder of WorldQuant University, a not-for-profit that offers an instructor-guided, tuition-free MSc program in Financial Engineering, and is committed to making higher-quality education more accessible worldwide. He also founded WorldQuant Foundry, a business incubator dedicated to building companies driven by exponential technologies.  

Previously, Igor worked as a venture capitalist, scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, video game programmer, and author. Igor holds an M.A. in computer science from the University of Texas, completed in a record nine months, and an M.B.A. in finance and entrepreneurship from the Wharton School.