Peng Zhao
CEO
Citadel Securities
Peng joined Citadel Securities as a Senior Quantitative Researcher in 2006. He became the firm’s Chief Executive Officer in 2017. A leading market maker and next generation capital markets firm, Citadel Securities delivers a broad range of equity and fixed income products to 1,600 global clients in 50 countries and jurisdictions around the world. Peng is a founding board member of The Asian American Foundation and serves on the board of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He earned a PhD in statistics from UC Berkeley and a bachelor’s in applied math from Peking University.