Citadel hires Balyasny director to lead equities engineering
Citadel wants its tech staff to head for Miami Beach, but some of its businesses are taking time to transition. Citadel's equities technology team seems rooted in New York, and its latest hire from rival hedge fund Balyasny isn't bucking the trend.
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William Pan has joined Citadel in New York as an engineering lead for its equities business. He spent the last seven and a half years at Balyasny, joining initially as a quant developer and working his way up to a director role in data enrichment. In a recent job listing, Balyasny describes data enrichment as "utiliz[ing] AI to enrich data sets, adding value through enhanced data attributes and insights."
New York is home to Citadel's director of equities engineering Juan Leon, formerly of Bridgewater Associates. Other equities technologists in the City include head of data science Kamil Zarychto and engineering lead Vladimir Berezniker, who joined from McKinsey and JPMorgan respectively.
Pan also had early career stints at quant fund AQR and Magnitude Capital, a hedge fund founded by D.E. Shaw and UBS alums. At AQR, he was an associate research developer in its global asset allocation group.
Another of Citadel's recent hires is a rare arrival from the world of fintech. Harold Sultan joined the hedge fund as a quantitative developer after three and a half years at Square, a payments firm in Jack Dorsey's fintech conglomerate Block. His role at Block was remote from Washington D.C, but he'll now be working on-site in Citadel's Greenwich, CT office.
Citadel declined a request for comment.
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