Ken Griffin is the Founder and CEO of Citadel, one of the world’s most respected and successful investment firms. Ken started trading convertible bonds from his Harvard dorm room and founded Citadel in 1990, shortly after graduating. Today, Citadel manages over $30 billion in capital for its partners including pension funds, endowments, foundations, hospitals, governments, sovereign wealth funds, and private individuals. In 2002, Ken founded Citadel Securities. Citadel Securities is a leading global market maker, delivering a broad array of fixed income and equity products to banks, broker-dealers, government agencies, corporations, insurers, and sovereign wealth funds around the world. Ken has given nearly $800 million to educational and cultural causes that drive community engagement and improvement. In 2014, he donated $150 million to support need-based financial aid at Harvard, the largest gift in school history at the time. In 2017, he gave $125 million to the University of Chicago to support the Department of Economics. Ken serves on numerous boards including the Board of Directors of the Chicago Public Education Fund and the Board of Trustees for the Art Institute of Chicago. Ken earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.