Peng Zhao (Chinese: 赵鹏; pinyin: Zhào Péng) is a Chinese-American businessman who is the CEO of market making firm Citadel Securities. Peng Zhao was born in Beijing, China.

Mar 16, 2022 · Partly as a result of an incredible $7bn revenue year in 2021, and also because of the investment made by Sequoia and Paradigm which valued the firm at $22bn, CEO Peng Zhao has decided that “staying under the radar is no longer an option”.

Peng Zhao joined Citadel Securities from graduate school as a Senior Quantitative Researcher in 2006. He became the firm’s Chief Executive Officer in 2017.

May 11, 2023 · Citadel Securities CEO Peng Zhao left for college at age 14, caught Griffin’s eye early in his career and built systems now mopping up market share

May 11, 2023 · Citadel Securities CEO Peng Zhao left for college at age 14, caught Griffin’s eye early in his career and built systems now mopping up market share by Katherine Doherty

5 days ago · Peng Zhao, CEO, Citadel Securities, Joseph Bae, Co-CEO, KKR, and Norman Chen, close out the TAAF x Forbes AAPI CEO Dinner in NYC. Stuart Feldman, who has played a prominent role in the...

Peng Zhao is Chief Executive Officer of Citadel Securities, a leading global market maker. One of the early architects of the firm, Peng joined Citadel Securities from graduate school as a Senior Quantitative Researcher in 2006 and was named CEO in 2017.

May 15, 2023 · As a math prodigy with a fascination for finance, our CEO Peng Zhao rose through the ranks quickly. Learn how he built his career, his team and the world’s top market maker in this new Bloomberg profile.

After completing a doctorate in statistics from UC–Berkeley, Zhao ascended from quant research to overseeing the core market-making business for Citadel Securities, the computerized...