Renee Yao

Founder Neo Ivy Capital

Renee Yao began her career on Wall Street at Citadel, LLC. Later she left Citadel to join WorldQuant, a Millenium Management portfolio manager, as a trader with discretionary trading authority for her own designated account. Subsequently she joined a prop trading firm where she managed multiple statistical arbitrage portfolios totalling 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 ‘’100 People Transforming Business’’ by Business Insider in 2020. Renee holds a M.A in Statistics from Columbia University.