In brief
Igor Tulchinsky (born 1966) is a Belarusian-American billionaire investor, quantitative finance pioneer, author, and philanthropist, best known as the founder, chairman, chief executive officer, co-chief investment officer, and head of research at WorldQuant, a global quantitative asset management firm he established in 2007.
Tulchinsky is of Jewish descent.
Born in Minsk, Belarus (then part of the Soviet Union), Tulchinsky immigrated to the United States in 1977 at age 11 with his parents, professional musicians who had defected after losing their jobs for attempting to emigrate; the family relocated across four U.S. states before settling, where he developed an early interest in programming by creating video games in high school. He earned a B.S. and M.A. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin, followed by an M.B.A. in finance and entrepreneurship from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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