Being deemed a great talent at a young age by Forbes isn’t what it used to be after Forbes made various dud calls. However, it still counts for something, even if it simply facilitates your move from one big hedge fund to another.
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Kendall Jager was 27 when she was elected one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 special people while she was working for hedge fund Millennium. Two years later, Jager is too old for another nomination, but has possibly leveraged the first to get headhunted by Point72 in New York.
Writing on social media, Jager says she’s joining Point72 as head of AI for investment services. Jager doesn’t elaborate on what this will entail, but investment services at Point72 includes areas like risk, compliance and operations. Presumably she will be responsible for automating these.
Jager has a bachelors in applied mathematics and economics from Brown University. She joined Millennium in 2017 and was latterly a senior data scientist there. In 2022 Forbes described Jager as, “a critical member of the team that built the firm’s [Millennium’s] in-house machine learning and data science platform for the compliance department.”
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