Renee Yao

Renee Yao Biography Renee Yao began her career on Wall Street at Citadel, LLC. Later she left Citadel to join WorldQuant, a Millennium Management portfolio manager, as a trader with discretionary trading authority for her own designated account. Subsequently she joined a prop trading firm founded by a former trader of Susquehanna International Group(SIG) where she managed multiple statistical arbitrage portfolios totaling several hundred million USD in gross positions. In early 2015, Renee set up her own firm, Neo Ivy Capital Management, a quantitative hedge fund manager that focuses on trading liquid, publicly traded equity securities via artificial intelligence strategies. Renee was named as “Tomorrow’s Titan” by The Hedge Fund Journal in 2019 and “10 Leaders Transforming Investing in North America” by Business Insider in 2020. Neo Ivy is the only 100% woman owned Quant/AI Hedge Fund in the industry. Renee has also been interviewed by Bloomberg’s “The Big Take” and the JPM Market Team, highlighting her contributions to artificial intelligence in 2023. Renee holds a M.A in Statistics from Columbia University.