At 31, Soeren Kuenzel runs Citadel Securities' FX team, overseeing hundreds of billions in trades.
Just ask Soeren Kuenzel, the head of foreign-exchange trading at Citadel Securities who's now responsible for billions in complicated currency trades at just 31 years old.
It was sponsored by Citadel, the hedge-fund firm led by the billionaire Ken Griffin, alongside the market maker Citadel Securities.
Citadel Securities, launched by Griffin in 2002, is one of the biggest trading houses matching sellers and buyers of stocks, bonds, and currencies across the globe.
He finished his doctorate at Berkeley in 2019 and began working that fall as a quant researcher at Citadel Securities full time in Chicago.
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