David Siegel
About David Siegel
David Siegel is the cofounder of Two Sigma, a quantitative investing powerhouse that manages $60 billion.
Two Sigma's largest business is a data-driven hedge fund that absorbs large amounts of information to predict the prices of securities.
Two Sigma also runs a market-making business, owns a Bermuda reinsurance company, operates a venture capital arm, operates a private equity arm and invests in real estate.
Born in the Bronx, Siegel is a computer fanatic who got a computer science Ph.D. from MIT and worked at hedge funds D.E. Shaw and Tudor Investments.
Siegel's charitable foundation, Siegel Family Endowment, is focused on technology and society and supports programs such as the MIT Center for Brains, Minds and Machines.
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07/15/61 (age 62)Education
Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Princeton UniversitySelf-made
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Before he started Two Sigma with John Overdeck, Siegel founded his own Internet startup.
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