
Igor Tulchinsky
Founder, Chairman, and CEOWorld
Quant
CEOI MEMBER SINCE 2023
Igor Tulchinsky is the founder, chairman, CEO, and head of research at WorldQuant, a global quantitative asset management firm with 24 global offices. Prior to founding WorldQuant in 2007, Mr. Tulchinsky spent 12 years as a statistical arbitrage portfolio manager at Millennium Management. He is the founder of WorldQuant University, a not-for-profit entity 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 Ventures, a private investment vehicle focused on disruptive companies in technology. Mr. Tulchinsky previously worked as a venture capitalist, scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, video game programmer, and author. He holds an MA degree in computer science from the University of Texas, completed in a record nine months, and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurship from the Wharton School.
