Growing up in South Florida in the 1980s, Griffin was drawn to tech from an early age. He shared an Emmy and Peabody Award for his work as as NBC analyst during the Olympics in Pyeongchang and Beijing, and has been seen on Meet the Press, CNN, CNBC, and Charlie Rose. In 2014, President Obama appointed Lisa to the Commission on White House Fellows. 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. An army of unsophisticated traders, mostly from Robinhood, were bidding the past-its-prime video game retailer to unprecedented heights and, in the process, catching some pros with their pants down. In April, 2003, he was named President and CEO of MIC. Christine received her BA in Economics with a minor in Global Studies at UCLA and her MBA at Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business with a triple concentration in Leading Innovative Organizations, Entrepreneurship, and Marketing. He served as lead China advisor on over $200 billion of completed China transactions and led investments alongside Chinas most significant commercial and financial players. Suddenly, everybody was following the inspiration of Lin that is forever known as Linsanity.. 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. Isabel Kim is the Chief Financial Officer at The Asian American Foundation (TAAF). Sruthi also has extensive experience generating and using evidence to inform policy and programming across diverse contexts. Copyright 2023 MarketWatch, Inc. All rights reserved. Sruthi brings her lived experience as a first-generation Indian American and a recent immigrant to the United States, along with her professional expertise in research and monitoring, evaluation, and learning, to TAAF. Yang and Yamazaki are the lead donors to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum expansion. The market-maker also programs almost exlusively in the esoteric OCaml coding language. During his time at NAPIESV, he supported community-based organizations, governmental agencies, and grantees of various Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women programs in enhancing their capacity to provide culturally specific and linguistically appropriate services for AAPI victims and survivors in the U.S. and U.S. Pacific Territories. 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. Citadel Securities CEO Zhao Peng. He has interviewed President Obama, Emmanuel Macron, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu and Recep Tayyip Erdoan, among others. Peng Zhao was born in Beijing, China. Peng earned his PhD in Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a Berkeley Fellow, and holds a bachelors degree in applied mathematics from Peking University. As a result, Citadel Securities is expanding into new markets and growing more rapidly than Griffins hedge fund. Peng Zhao (simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: Zho Png) is a Chinese-American businessman who is the CEO of Citadel Securities. He bought put options, betting that the stock would fall, and made a few thousand after it collapsed. Stella was the recipient of the UC Hastings Certificate of Leadership and the UC Hastings Outstanding Contribution by Staff during her time there. Prior to TAAF, she was Deputy Director of Operations at Supermajority, a women's activism group harnessing the collective power of women voters, was an award-winning Director of Marketing at Humane Society Silicon Valley, finding forever homes for shelter animals, and started her career in marketing and publicity roles at Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House, before finding her passion in the nonprofit sector in 2014. 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). Before joining the Foremost Group, Chao worked in the mergers and acquisitions department of what is now Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. He was Chair of the Chamoru Language Commission, served on the National Board of Educational Sciences, Guam Board of Education, founding member of the Guam Humanities Council, and on the National Advisory Council on Bilingual Education and American Folklife Center Board of Trustees (Appointed by Speaker Pelosi). She serves on the board of the Asian Health Services Foundation, is an inductee of the Alameda County Womens Hall of Fame, an alumnus of Leadership California and recipient of the Asian Business Leagues Leadership Award. Griffin employs smart mathematicians and scientists who harness cutting-edge technologypredictive analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligenceto analyze huge amounts of data in real time. Given the intense competition, many look beyond the US borders to hire brilliant technologists. Recode named Jonathan to its inaugural Recode 100, a list of the top 100 people in business and technology. He is both a Professor Emeritus and President Emeritus and is the longest serving President in the Universitys history.Mr. 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. Additionally, Ken manages his family investment office and serves as Senior Advisor to The Carlyle Groups natural resources division. Consider natural gas, which just 15 years ago was expensive and in short supply. Born and raised in the Philippines, Marcelo graduated magna cum laude with a bachelors degree in economics from Mt. Our nation has a huge debt to finance. Li Lu was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. The controversy that once engulfed them has largely subsided, with the notable exception of those that pay retail brokers like Robinhood for customer trade orders, a practice called payment-for-order-flow that's garnered a stern look from regulators and lawmakers over the past year. He is based in Los Angeles and New York. Peng Zhao (simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: Zho Png) is a Chinese-American businessman who is the CEO of Citadel Securities. Vladimir Putins mechanized assault on Ukraine has stalled; hes now making veiled threats about nuclear strikes. Zoom is a proud partner of TAAF on the AAPI Giving Challenge. CEO, Citadel Securities Peng Zhao is Chief Executive Officer of Citadel Securities, a global financial services firm with offices across the United States, Asia-Pacific and Europe. Until 2016, he served as CEO of the firm. He bemoans Americas economic response to the pandemicessentially flooding the zone with $5 trillion in federal stimulus spending. We wanted to do our part to ensure that they had the necessary resources to fulfill their critical mission. Peng Zhao net worth 366 Million Millions of dollars 99% Net worth score Disclamer: Peng Zhao net worth displayed here are calculated based on a combination social factors. The firm hired 67 roles via the H-1B program last year, including 24 software developers. Founder, AME Cloud Ventures, Co-Founder, Yahoo! He became the firm's Chief Executive Officer in 2017. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Peng and his wife Cherry, both Chinese Americans, organized the donation of over one million masks to first responders and helped raise funds for medical supplies in Hubei province, aid to families displaced by the pandemic and early resources for vaccine development. Raised in New Mexico, Ramo holds degrees from the University of Chicago and NYU. She resides in Austin, TX and speaks Mandarin Chinese. From 1988 through 2015, under his leadership, NGP invested over $12 billion and achieved returns making it one of the nations leading private equity firms. He later installed a satellite dish on the roof of his dorm so he could pipe real-time quotes directly into his IBM PC. Ramo authored two New York Times bestsellers, The Age of the Unthinkable and The Seventh Sense, and has been featured in TIME, FORTUNE, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times. Passionate about the intersection of food, identity, and agency, she also apprenticed at Orchard Kitchen Farm in Washington State to experience the livelihood of the over 1 billion people globally who work in agriculture.Tong Yuan graduated summa cum laude with bachelors in medical anthropology and public health from Southern Methodist University, where she was a Presidents Scholar and Maguire Public Service Fellow. Hudson River Trading bills itself as a math-focused trading enterprise, with a mantra of, "Built by coders. He is a member of the Committee of 100 and the Council on Foreign Relations. Mar and Kasdan have an overall deal at Walt Disney Television, where they are developing comedies and dramas for cable, streaming and network television. Bernadette loves a good road trip full of Whitney Houston singalongs. Lee has been featured in PBSs film series Asian Americans and has been interviewed for many news shows, podcasts, and publications. DRW was one of the earliest financial institutions to embrace bitcoin, mining and trading the digital asset through its Cumberland subsidiary starting in 2014. Peng Zhao is Chief Executive Officer of Citadel Securities, a global financial services firm headquartered in Chicago, with offices across the United States, Asia-Pacific and Europe. Today, these "Flash Boys" as they were dubbed in the 2014 book by Michael Lewis are among the most powerful and influential trading juggernauts in the markets. She has had the great privilege of working in the fundraising and development departments at organizations such as Supermajority, Lincoln Center, the New York Youth Symphony, and Voices of Ascension. Jonathan also founded All for Good, served as CEO of GOOD Worldwide, and VP of Consumer Products at REALTOR.com. Jane Street reaped $10.6 billion in net trading revenues and $7.8 billion in ebitda in its fiscal year that ended in March of 2021, according to Bloomberg, thanks in part to trading volatility stoked by the pandemic. Moreover, the hate that threatens individuals from AAPI communities ultimately threatens all marginalized communities. Griffin believes inflation is going to force central banks around the world to tighten interest rates more aggressively. 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. 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. She is a senior fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In her spare time, Stella loves to collect records, go to concerts, cook, and try new restaurants. In the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, Bae and the KKR leadership established a $50 million global relief fund to help people affected by COVID-19. Condoleezza Rice is the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy. 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. He holds a B.S. Most recently, she was a co-Principal Investigator on a mixed methods, community-based participatory research study documenting the needs of, perspectives on, and access to sexual and reproductive health in the AAPI comunity. The investment by Paradigm, which specializes in crypto, underscores Griffins intention to become a leading market maker in the fragmented but fast-growing cryptocurrency trading business. A proud Korean American, Mr. Bae grew up in Long Island, New York and now lives with his wife Janice and their four children. As the Anti-Hate and Belonging Program Associate, Tong Yuan manages the team's administrative needs, coordinates grantee communications, and cultivates collaboration within the Anti-Hate and Belonging National Network. Tsai was born in Taiwan, of parents who originally came from Shanghai with ancestral lineage to Zhejiang Province in China. Li Lu currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Columbia University and a member of the Board of Trustees of California Institute of Technology. She serves on the boards of Scholars at Risk, African Leadership University, and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). Aryani was named among Maryland's Top 100 Women. It has put a great burden on our fiscal deficit and locked in a huge liability for the next generation. Perhaps the biggest risk, Griffin says, is the weaponization of the dollar now that Western powers have cut off Russias access to bank accounts containing hundreds of billions of dollars in cash and securities. She is the Class of 1951 Chair for the Study of Leadership at West Point. She serves on the University of Pennsylvanias Alumni Board of Directors, Penns Pan-Asian American Community House Board of Advisors, Rise Firsts Board of Advisors, as well as the I Have A Dream Foundations Board of Directors. What has driven those returns is his close study of macrotrends and his uniquely powerful position at one of the fulcrums of global finance. He has been a board or advisory council member at The Nature Conservancy (CA), Childrens Medical Foundation (HK), SF Marine Science Institute, and Positive Coaching Alliance. Norman brings a thirty-year career in entrepreneurship, healthcare, community leadership, and philanthropy spanning the United States and Asia. In 2020, amid a pandemic-induced spike in trading, DRW earned revenues of $1.5 billion and earnings before taxes, depreciation, and amortization of $750 million, according to a Bloomberg report . from Madras Christian College, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, and a masters in public and private management from Yale. The most common roles it hired on visa were algorithm developer (21), core developer (14), and algorithm engineer (11). 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 Georgetown University Law Center. One of the biggest drivers of our success was our decision to return to the office, he says, contending that in-office work shows respect to his funds clients. Rice served as Stanford Universitys provost from 1993 to 1999. The Making of Asian America will also soon be republished with a new postscript about the latest campaigns against Asian Americans. Niu is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Committee of 100. Aryani co-founded the Asian American Federal Employees for Nondiscrimination where she promotes equity to protect Asian Americans from profiling during heightened U.S-Asia conflicts. But also, Jump Crypto isn't just a trading firm; it's also investing in start-ups, and half of its developers are dedicated to building its own protocols, according to CoinDesk. She grew up in the midwest, attended Brown, received her M.P.A. About 20,000 new cases of colorectal cancer are expected to be diagnosed in people younger than 50 this year, according to the American Cancer Society. 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. Being in the weedsKen redefined it for me.. The more we learn about one another, the more we can stand in solidarity with our community, allies and partners to create a more just and equitable future for all.". He is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. 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. Have we laid the seeds for By the time Griffin was 30, in 1998, Citadels hedge funds had $1 billion in assets. Nooyi serves on the Board of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and the Partnership for Public Service. Putin refers to it as an act of war, he says. She brings her expertise in guiding leading organizations in culture, technology, fashion, and retail, first as as Head of Strategy at 2x4, a globally recognized design and branding agency, leading projects for clients including Google, Prada, MoMA, and Target, and as a Strategy Director at UNIQLO's Global Creative Lab. During the pandemic, Griffin donated more than $50 million to vaccine development and other Covid-19-related programs. Jonathan Greenblatt is the CEO of ADL (Anti-Defamation League) and its sixth National Director. A Harvard University graduate, Lin helped pave the way for his Harvard team to become nationally-ranked for the first time in its history along with making their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1946. He received an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France in May 1976. Charity has an MPA from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley. She founded the New York Asian Womens Center, the first organization on the East Coast working with battered immigrant Asian women. She served as a board member at community nonprofits focusing on education, gender, and human rights. 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. "History repeats itself. Raised in Boston after his family immigrated to the U.S. when he was 7 years old, Peter is an avid fan of his hometown and its sports teamsthe Boston Red Sox, New England Patriots, Boston Bruins, and Boston Celtics. The firm last summer revealed intentions to compete with Citadel Securities, Virtu, and several others that execute giant volumes of trades for individual investors through online retail brokerages. Griffin points out that commodities typically have become dramatically cheaper over the course of history as we have found solutions to either secure them at a lower price or find a lower-cost solution., The best long-term bets, he says, are innovative, fast-growing American tech companies on the forefront of revolutionizing how corporate America functions., As for bitcoin, Griffin the investor is still a skeptic. In recognition of her work, Amanda is a Heinz Laureate, Nelson Mandela Changemaker, Forbes 30 Under 30, Foreign Policy 100, Time 100 Next, Frederick Douglass 100, and Marie Claire Young Woman of the Year. "High-frequency trading" has lost some pejorative sting as these firms have become dominant fixtures in various global markets. Previously chief operating officer of Microsoft, Turner departs the firm only a few months after joining in August 2016. In 1978, Mr. Sakurai served as a Loan Officer with the World Bank and as an Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation in Washington D.C. Yang and Filo were recognized as Engineering Heroes by the Stanford School of Engineering in 2013. Isabel was born and raised on Guam and enjoys spending time with friends and family back in the Pacific every year. He also attended INSEADs Senior Executive Leadership Program in Paris and Singapore. She oversees accounting, financial reporting, financial operations, treasury, FP&A, audit, and payroll. Holyoke College, which also conferred upon her an honorary Doctorate of Human Letters in 2015. That speed combined with a vigorous pursuit of the smartest engineers and quant researchers in the world has made Jump one of the fiercest market-makers in the industry across several asset classes and it's accomplished it with monk-like quietude, up until recently averting public attention at every turn. . Fatima has a Bachelor's degree in Sociology with a minor in Anthropology from Washington University in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. "As a Jewish American, I feel a moral obligation to stand with AAPI communities. A graduate of the Lawrenceville School (82), Yale College (BA 86) and Yale Law School (JD 90), Tsai played varsity lacrosse for Yale and, in 2017, received the George H.W. She also served as chief of staff to PepsiCos Global Public Policy and Government Affairs group. It's been an enormously profitable niche. H Heath Tarbert from Tsinghua University in Beijing, and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. As acceptance has spread, it's become one of the cryptocurrency's leading market makers, and in 2021 it executed Goldman Sachs' first-ever crypto block trade in the form of bitcoin futures. TAAF is a non-partisan 501(c)3 non-profit recognized by the IRS. She currently serves on the boards of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) and Asian Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation (APIAHiP).