David Shaw

Before David Shaw founded and operates D. E. Shaw, a large successful hedge fund company, he became successful in exploiting inefficiencies in financial markets.  He did this through high speed computer networks.

In 1986 he became Vice President for Technology at Morgan Stanely’s Nunzio Tartaglia’s automated proprietary trading group.

In 2007 he became an American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow and two years later, Obama appointed him to the President’s Council of Advisors of Science and Technology.

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