Teymour Shahabi

Teymour Shahabi leads Feature and Learner Strategy at Two Sigma Investments, one of the world’s largest systematic hedge funds. In his decade-plus at the company, he has held a number of leadership roles within the firm’s Modeling and Trading organization. Prior to joining Two Sigma, Teymour was a consultant within the Strategy and Corporate Finance practice at McKinsey & Company in New York. In parallel to his career in finance, Teymour is an award-winning novelist.

Born to Persian parents in Paris, he moved to the US to earn degrees in Comparative Literature and Mathematics, Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard College. He then pursued a Master’s in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Oxford, before once again crossing the Atlantic—followed more recently by the East River (he lives in Brooklyn).