Igor Tulchinsky

Igor Tulchinsky is Founder, Chairman and CEO of WorldQuant, a global quantitative asset management firm with 1,100+ employees and 28 global offices. As CEO, Igor provides vision, leadership and both strategic and tactical guidance to Research, Portfolio Management and other parts of the organization. Prior to founding WorldQuant in 2007, Igor spent 12 years as a statistical arbitrage portfolio manager at Millennium Management. Igor is 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. Igor founded WorldQuant Foundry, a business incubator dedicated to building companies driven by exponential technologies. He also founded WorldQuant Ventures, a private investment vehicle focused on disruptive companies in technology. Igor previously worked as a venture capitalist, scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, video game programmer, and author. He is the author of multiple articles and books, including The Age of Prediction, Finding Alphas and The UnRules. 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.