Series: Office Hours with Two Sigma Leaders

What drives successful leadership in financial sciences? How do senior professionals navigate complex career decisions and build resilient teams? We’ve sat down with leaders across Two Sigma to explore these questions and more.

The result is an ongoing series that offers a window into the diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and approaches that shape our organization. From investment management to engineering excellence, from regional market dynamics to AI-driven transformation, these conversations illustrate how thoughtful leadership responds to key challenges and opportunities.

Inside the series:

• Mae Santos, Head of Critical Applications and Data Reliability Engineering, brings a global perspective shaped by her journey to leading engineering teams across multiple continents. Her insights emphasize leading with integrity, designing for reliability from the ground up, and leveraging diverse team strengths. Mae’s approach demonstrates how technical excellence and human-centered leadership go hand in hand.
• Kenny Lam, CEO of Two Sigma Asia Pacific, explores the intersection of global strategy and local expertise in one of the world’s most dynamic regions. His perspective on technological changes reshaping investment management, particularly AI’s central role and the need for cross-disciplinary creativity, offers valuable insights for navigating industry transformation. Kenny’s focus on execution excellence and strategic adaptation reflects the balance required in complex markets.
• Grace Gu, Portfolio Manager, shares her unique journey from systematic to discretionary investing and back to a hybrid approach combining both methodologies. Her reflections on essential investment manager qualities—insight, courage, objectivity, and discipline—provide a framework for understanding sustainable performance. Grace’s work helping to build Two Sigma’s “scientific discretionary” capabilities illustrates how innovation emerges from bridging different approaches.

Each conversation offers practical perspectives that may prove valuable whether you’re early in your career, transitioning between roles, or leading teams through periods of change.

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Keep an eye out for additional articles in this series. And if you’re curious about opportunities at Two Sigma, visit our Careers page to learn more about open positions, our culture, and how to apply.