John Overdeck – Billionaire

The co-founder of Two Sigma Investments, John Overdeck has built a quantitative trading powerhouse that is the fastest growing hedge fund in the business. With $40 billion of assets under management, Two Sigma is a data-driven hedge fund that absorbs large amounts of information to predict the prices of securities ranging from stocks to futures contracts. It flagship Spectrum fund returned about 3% in 2016 while its big Compass fund returned about 10% net of fees. A math prodigy who won a silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad at age 16, Overdeck worked at D.E. Shaw and Amazon before starting Two Sigma with David Siegel in 2001. The firm also runs a market-making business, owns a Bermuda reinsurance company and operates a venture capital arm.

Source:forbes