D. E. Shaw & Co.

Company

Investment-firm

Last deal

Amount

Private Equity

Stage

01.01.2013

Date

1

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About Company
D. E. Shaw & Co. is an investment firm specializing in equities, futures, and options trading.

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Also Known As

DE Shaw Co

founded date

01.01.1988

Number of employees

Last funding type

Private Equity

IPO status

Private

Description

The firm invests in equities, futures, and options in public and private markets and is also involved in fundamental analysis or portfolio manager discretion such as credit, energy, and macro investing. Other products and services include asset-backed securities, convertible securities, corporate credit, futures and currencies, fixed income securities, and venture capital. Founded in 1988, the firm has grown to over 1,900 employees globally and uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative tools to uncover independent sources of return.
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Founders
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David E. Shaw
David E. Shaw

David E. Shaw

David Shaw received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1980 and served on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Columbia University until 1986, when he left to pursue the emerging field of computational finance. He initiated his work on computational biochemistry in 2001, began building the scientific team at D. E. Shaw Research in 2002, and resumed his affiliation with Columbia in 2005. He was appointed to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology by President Clinton in 1994, and again by President Obama in 2009. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a winner of the ACM Gordon Bell Prize.

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D. E. Shaw Research
D. E. Shaw Research

count Of Investments

1

David E. Shaw

Employee Profiles
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Iwan Djanali

Vice president, chief of staff to head of investor relations

Jason Stewart

Jason Stewart

SVP & Head of Corporate Services

Craig Tamamoto

Senior vice president, head of employee relations and core human resources

Cleo Miller

Operations

Natalie Zhao

Associate

Piotr Kietlinski

Senior vice president

O'Mary Michael

Managing director

James Garmendia

Analyst

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