Hes Just Getting Started. He reckons he has personally interviewed no fewer than 10,000 candidatesroughly two per dayover his career. She grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In addition to his role as CEO of Citadel LLC, Griffin also heads Citadel Securities, the market maker of Citadel Securities, worth $43 billion. She served as a board member at community nonprofits focusing on education, gender, and human rights. Theres no doubt that the collaboration amongst my colleagues in person accentuates our ability to act and react to information in a way that a number of our competitors just cant., The war in Ukraine has pushed aside pandemic and meme stock woes. from the Yale School of the Environment and a B.A. Currently she serves as a board member of Asian American Futures and the Asian American Action Fund. Born in South Korea, raised in Pennsylvania, Kim began his career on stage after graduating from Haverford College and earning an MFA from NYU. In January 2020, Li Lu co-founded the Guardians of the Angeles Charitable Foundation to combat the global COVID-19 crisis and now serves as Chairman of the Board of the Foundation. Li Lu is a member of the Committee of 100, the Council on Foreign Relations, and an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow. Prisca began her career as an attorney at Latham & Watkins, LLP and received her B.A. As Development Associate, she provides operational and administrative support for revenue generating activities and partnerships at the organization. Led by coders." Being in the weedsKen redefined it for me.. He is a member of the Committee of 100 and the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to PepsiCo, Prisca advised companies and nonprofits on strategic womens initiatives as Vice President at Seneca Women, the advisory firm founded by the former U.S. Audrey is a fourth generation Japanese American who was born and raised in Union City, California and now resides in Oakland with her husband and two teenage sons. Citadel founder and CEO, Ken Griffin: "The catastrophe in Ukraine is a giant unforced error.". Hes now worth $27.2 billion, but he has bigger things on his mind than the size of his personal fortune. Bush 48 Lifetime of Leadership Award, which honors Yale alumni athletes who have made significant leadership contributions in their worlds of governance, commerce, science and technology, education, public service, and the arts and media. After 9/11 Naheed was recruited to join the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Before ADL, he served as Special Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Social Innovation. Our nation has a huge debt to finance. That dynamic has shifted in recent years, in part because of its size. from Tsinghua University in Beijing, and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. in political science from the University of Wisconsin and J.D. Peng Zhao Net Worth His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. While privately owned, the firm operates like a multi-strategy hedge fund with individual, autonomous trading teams a departure from competitors with flat, collaborative cultures. Theres nothing efficient about bitcoin from an economic or environmental perspective. Zoom Cares, the social impact arm of Zoom, puts the full weight of the companys platform, dollars, employees, and voice behind a commitment to foster equity, democratize opportunity, and address some of humanitys biggest challenges. As an active member in the community, Park has led McKinsey's research on accelerating growth and competitiveness in U.S. industry, including the McKinsey Quarterly article Translating innovation into US growth and work with the Brookings Institute, World Economic Forum, and state governments. Peng Zhao is Chief Executive Officer of Citadel Securities, a global financial services firm headquartered in Chicago, with offices across the Unit ed States, Asia-Pacific and Europe. Lee has been featured in PBSs film series Asian Americans and has been interviewed for many news shows, podcasts, and publications. Consider natural gas, which just 15 years ago was expensive and in short supply. That means Gorton has more frequently found himself in the spotlight, an outspoken counterexample to his more secretive HFT peers. Aryani Ong is TAAF's Director of Anti-Hate & Belonging, and a Chinese-Indonesian American civil rights attorney. Raised in New Mexico, Ramo holds degrees from the University of Chicago and NYU. Were also committed to driving positive change in response to harmful rhetoric directed against AAPI communities. He founded Himalaya Capital in late 1997 and has been running its principal fund ever since. He also led a multi-program team to strengthen social justice organizations and networks in the U.S. Chen was also the Founder and CEO of Smart Growth America, where he created the National Vacant Properties Campaign and Transportation for America, and managed a merger with the Growth Management Leadership Alliance. Prisca Bae joins the Asian American Foundation from the private sector where she designed and launched philanthropic and social impact initiatives centered around communities of color and women. In February 2021 Griffin was hauled before Congress to testify in hearings concerning a halt in trading in GameStop, the poster child for the meme stock frenzy roiling Wall Street at the time. He earned his Ph.D. and A.M. in political science from Harvard, his J.D. He became the firm's Chief Executive Officer in 2017. Not that long ago, "high-frequency trading" was a dirty word on Wall Street code for secretive enterprises that leveraged microwave towers, fiber optic cables, and other expensive hardware to poach trades and front-run other investors, reaping millions in the process. Have we laid the seeds for In 2020, Care.com was acquired by holding company IAC. Recently, she was a Bill Emerson National Fellow with the Chicago Food Policy Action Council, an Advisory Board Member with First Lady Michelle Obama's Better Make Room Initiative, and a Program and Fundraising Volunteer with the Kofi Adomako Foundation. But its bread and butter is exchange-traded funds, trading trillions in ETF volume annually as one of the largest market makers in the world. He thinks it will get worse. Howard joins TAAF with extensive experience as staff for Members of Congress from the California delegation as well as serving as Policy and Press Advisor for the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus. Christine Ho is the Development Associate at The Asian American Foundation, playing a key role in advancing TAAF's mission and vision through revenue-generating activities and partnerships for TAAF. She is also a published writer with her essays on food, identity, and belonging featured in the Fordham Undergraduate Research Journal and Bricolage Magazine. It was get under your desk to brace for the impact of a nuclear blast. To see us return to the rhetoric of that moment is a huge setback.. Meet the community partners supporting AAPIs and other underserved communities daily, Unlocking resources for AAPI communities and causes, Our work would not be possible without the support of our partners, Li Lu, Board Chair, The Asian American Foundation, Chief Executive Officer, The Asian American Foundation, CEO and National Director, Anti-Defamation League, Governor, Brooklyn Nets and New York Liberty, Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, Alibaba Group. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Rice earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver; her masters in the same subject from the University of Notre Dame; and her Ph.D.in political science from the University of Denver. Lanhee J. Chen, Ph.D. is the David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution and Director of Domestic Policy Studies and Lecturer in the Public Policy Program at Stanford. The firm was founded 2000 by defectors from Susquehanna International Group and maintains an offbeat identity, according to a 2021 profile in the Financial Times. Putin refers to it as an act of war, he says. In 1995, he was named General Manager of Corporate Planning at MC and in 1998, General Manager for Regional Strategy and Coordination. Other executives include Matt Culek, Senior Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer; Heath Tarbert, Chief Legal Officer and 9 others. "Ive long believed that education is one of the most powerful tools in bridging cultures and bringing people together to create change. A second generation Korean American born in Orange County and raised in San Jose, Salt Lake City, and Seoul, Terry currently resides in Oakland, California. Its lifeblood is volume, and despite Griffins consternation over the consequences of war in Europe, he knows that uncertainty and tumultuous markets will almost surely add to his billions. Prevailing wage sets a floor for their salary, but salaries are commonly higher than the prevailing wage. Isabel was born and raised on Guam and enjoys spending time with friends and family back in the Pacific every year. He comes to TAAF after serving in a multitude of public sector leadership roles, including chief of human resources at the Illinois Tollway, deputy chief human resources officer at the Chicago Housing Authority, deputy chief talent officer at City Colleges of Chicago, and director of talent acquisition at Chicago Public Schools. She helped develop and launch a $100 million commitment to women and girls and worked with leaders company-wide on gender parity and pay equity issues. She is also a commissioner on President Biden's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Jane Street has a stranglehold on the bond ETF market in particular, coupling an ultra-fast algorithmic approach with human trading intuition and holding positions at times for days or longer an eternity compared with the traditional standards of high-frequency trading. Previously, Lisa EPd and hosted Our America on OWN. Park received his BA in International Studies from Vassar College, his MA from NYUs Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and his PhD in Cultural Studies with a designated emphasis in Studies of Performance and Practice from the University of California, Davis. She is also a graduate of LeadBostons Class of 2017 and Women in NAAAPs 2015 Lean in Circle program. Griffin has already bested the crypto crowd with his recent $43 million purchase of a first printing of the U.S. Constitution. Yang and Yamazaki are the lead donors to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum expansion. He was named to Fortune Magazines 40 Under 40 list, which noted that under his stewardship, Citadel Securities has not only widened its lead as the top market maker in U.S. stocks, but also emerged as a transformative influence in new and growing markets. She lives on the East Coast where she participates in several social justice giving circles. Since becoming CEO in 2017, he . He later installed a satellite dish on the roof of his dorm so he could pipe real-time quotes directly into his IBM PC. Bernadette Cruz is Director of Operations at The Asian American Foundation managing vendor relations, contracting processes, and oversees effective procedures throughout the organization. He has interviewed President Obama, Emmanuel Macron, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu and Recep Tayyip Erdoan, among others. The program earned the prestigious Peabody Award in 2011 and has received multiple Emmy nominations. Citadel Securities is poised to receive its first round of outside investment, with a capital infusion of $1.15 billion from Sequoia Capital and Paradigm, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo! Active philanthropists in education and research, the Tsais established the Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute at Stanford University, dedicated to understanding how the brain gives rise to mental life and behavior, both in health and in disease. Citadel Securities is run by a Beijing-born data genius named Peng Zhao, 40. Citadel Securities, and other top market makers, pay retail brokers like Robinhood hundreds of millions in fees for the right to execute their clients' stock and options trades. In December 2019, Motoatsu Sakurai retired from Japan Society NY after serving as President for over a decade and is now President Emeritus. Norman Chen is the Chief Executive Officer of TAAF and brings a thirty-year career in entrepreneurship, healthcare and community leadership in the United States and Asia. There will be serious Jonathan Greenblatt is the CEO of ADL (Anti-Defamation League) and its sixth National Director. Jane Street trades across many of same asset classes as its chief HFT rivals, from stocks and options to cryptocurrencies. One of the firm's early architects, he joined Citadel Securities directly out of graduate school as a Senior Quantitative Researcher. Your contribution to TAAF is tax-deductible for Federal tax purposes, to the extent provided by applicable Federal tax laws. And every year, the Office of Foreign Labor Certification discloses this salary data in an enormous dataset. Eric is also an advisor to many disruptive startups like Yumi, Wardrobe, Upaway, Fyllo, and many others. Beeson and Peng Zhao, chief executive officer of Citadel Securities, also gave Vallas $100,000 each. The firm was cofounded in 1998 by Mark Gorton, who started out as an electrical engineer at a Lockheed Martin predecessor and later worked as a fixed-income prop trader at Credit Suisse First Boston. As a result, Citadel Securities is expanding into new markets and growing more rapidly than Griffins hedge fund. But they couldnt make a decision. Instead, he will lend the document to billionaire Alice Waltons Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, to be put on display there. As a result, prop trading firms are voracious hirers of engineers, data scientists, and quantitative traders and researchers. Sadly, she is not an art historian, anthropologist, or tattoo artist. Outside of her job at TAAF, Claire volunteers as a mentor to Asian American youth, teaching about the importance of community leadership and civic engagement. A physician and anthropologist, Kims career has revolved around health, education, and improving the lives of the poor. M Matthew Culek Chief Operating Officer Matthew Culek is a Chief Operating Officer, Citadel Execution Services at Citadel Securities and is based in United States. Its worth listening to him. Have we laid the seeds for the setting of the American era of technological superiority? Griffin asks. Video- Jesse Dylan, Priscilla Cohen, Natsu Furuichi, Graham Riley, Janine Sax, Sarah Choi, Yvonne King, Jaime Arze, Michael Aloyan, Charles van der Poel, Abhi Chacko, Ali Rubin, Patti Solis Doyle, Wenchi Wei, Selena Shen, Nik Deogun, Tanya Takahashi, Deepali Bagati, Neal Arthur, Karl Lieberman, Tobey Bennett, Madeline Parker, Gino Click, Kevin Kaminishi, Yukino Moore, Jasmine Sarbaz, Andy Lindblade, Alysha Kishan, Jesse Collins, Kimmie Kim, Carol Donovan, Sandra Restrepo, Joe Bouye, Amanda Silverman, Anna Bailer, Chelsea Thomas, Sandi Halimuddin, Christine Su. magna cum laude in government from Harvard. Zakaria is also a columnist for The Washington Post and the bestselling author of Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World, In Defense of a Liberal Education, The Post-American World, and The Future of Freedom. "History repeats itself. Fatima continues to search for how she can be of service to others and, in her free time, enjoys boxing, exploring local eateries, and spending time in nature. Claire graduated from Fordham University with a BA in American Studies and Political Science with a concentration in Diversity & Difference. Yang currently sits on the boards of Alibaba, Workday and Lenovo. In his free time, he enjoys serving as a youth group leader, playing basketball, snowboarding, and spending time in nature with his wife and daughter. She resides in Austin, TX and speaks Mandarin Chinese. The program recognizes the achievements of Stanford engineers who have advanced the course of human, social and economic progress through engineering. Peng Zhao is Chief Executive Officer at Citadel Securities LLC. We are blessed to have such deep reservoirs of energy in Americathe combination of fossil fuels, oil, natural gas and the [large size] of our country to avail ourselves of solar and wind. She comes to TAAF after serving as President & CEO of the I Have A Dream Foundation, a national nonprofit empowering youth to achieve their dreams through education and mentorship. After graduating from Tokyo University Faculty of Law in 1968, Mr. Sakurai entered Mitsubishi Corporation. She serves on the boards of Scholars at Risk, African Leadership University, and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). Indra Nooyi is the former chairman and CEO of PepsiCo and served as a board member between 2001 and February 2019. Ken Griffin is staring pensively out a wall of windows on the tenth floor of a Midtown Manhattan office building, one of three locations in New York City occupied by his $47 billion Chicago-based hedge fund, Citadel. Her 10+ years of experience include serving as Director of Worldwide Publicity for Sony Pictures Entertainment and consulting on communication strategies for AAPI talent and activists. That included four quantitative trading analysts and three software developers. We wanted to do our part to ensure that they had the necessary resources to fulfill their critical mission. Lisa is the Executive Producer and host of THIS IS LIFE on CNN. But what a disgrace if it detracts from retail investor confidence in the stock market and the allocation of capital to companies that create jobs, Griffin says. "Our ability to make money is based on our research and quantitative horsepower and data science, not our speed," David Olsen, president and chief investment officer at Chicago-based Jump Trading, told The Wall Street Journal. Eugenas honors include receiving the Trailblazer award from both the Korean American Lawyers Association of Greater New York (2019) and the IvyG Conference (2018), being named to New York Non-Profit Medias inaugural class of 40 Under 40 Rising Stars (2015) and receiving the University of Pennsylvanias Asian Alumni Associations Outstanding Alumna Award (2008). That's where Yass in the early 1980s got his start as an options trader on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and a protege of hedge fund billionaire Izzy Englander, who funded his early trading, according to a profile in Forbes Magazine. He is from China. Naheed Qureshi is Head of Policy Partnerships at Instacart where she builds relationships with stakeholders to further joint policy goals. Ms. Khan served as the Country Director for The Foundation for Charitable Activities in Bangladesh, and as the first Director of Legal and Compliance at BRAC, the worlds largest NGO. Peng Zhao, Citadel Securities' chief executive officer, and Pablo Salame, Citadel's co-chief investment officer, could already run the firm without him anyway. She joins TAAF from the University of California, Hastings Law where she served as a lead administrative assistant to UC Hastings faculty. Rice has won two of the universitys highest teaching honors the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching. Peter graduated as a Posse Foundation Scholar from Union College in 2015 with a B.A. Chen currently serves as Co-Chair of the Presidents Council on Impact Investing and on the boards of Living Cities, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, and Philanthropy New York. Tower Research has at times in its nearly 25-year history been among the largest algorithmic traders in US and European stock markets. She is a highly creative marketing and communications executive with a depth of experience building brand and comms strategies, negotiating key press placements, developing social media campaigns, executing stunts and events, establishing innovative partnerships and managing talent in both the profit and non-profit space. Kim starred on the hit series "Hawaii Five-0" and "Lost," as well as on stage in Lincoln Center's Tony Award-winning production of "The King and I.". Tsai and his wife Clara have taken on active roles supporting social justice and COVID-19 related humanitarian relief. She graduated with Honors from the University of Chicago with an AB in Cultural Anthropology, and is pursuing a MSW at the Hunter College Silberman School of Social Work. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Niu earned a B.S. Prior to her government service, Dr. Silver was instrumental in the transformation and expansion of Arizona State University, leading in work on economic development policy and metrics, science, technology and innovation policy, state K-12 and higher education policy, sustainability science, and global health. Marcelo founded her company in 2006, and under her leadership, Care.com became the world's largest marketplace for providing care, serving more than 35 million people across 20 countries and growing more than 100% year-over-year from its founding in 2006, until the company went public in 2014. The price of GameStop plummeted, effectively throwing Melvin another lifeline. It has steadily expanded its remit since, with offices and systematic trading strategies spanning the globe focused on commodities, FX, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies. Claire is originally from San Jos, California and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Citadel Securities, founded by Ken Griffin in 2002, is separate from hedge fund Citadel, the $43 billion enterprise that has boosted Griffin's net worth to $21.3 billion. His most serious rival in the November 2021 Sothebys auction was a blockchain-backed digital money collectivea decentralized autonomous organization known as ConstitutionDAO, which had raised tens of millions in an attempt to buy the document. Audrey graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a degree in economics and has an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA with an emphasis in nonprofit management and entrepreneurship. It has no CEO or official management committee, but instead "resembles an anarchist commune, informally led by a group of 30 or 40 senior executives," according to the FT. Dr. Silver also served for Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano as the Policy Advisor for Economic Development, Innovation, and Higher Education. Charity Espiritu manages the Anti-Hate and Belonging flagship program at TAAF and brings 15 years of experience in philanthropy, social impact, and public policy. Prior to his appointment at TAAF, Norman co-founded the nonprofit Leading Asian Americans to Unite for Change (LAAUNCH) and helped to create a landmark study, The STAATUS Index, of American attitudes towards Asian Americans.