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American businessman

Jaffray Piers Woodriff (born April 8, 1969, in Virginia) is the co-founder and Chief executive of Quantitative Investment Management (QIM), a $1 billion hedge store.

Woodriff founded QIM smash into Michael Geismar and Greyson Ballplayer ^[1] in 2003.^[2] Woodriff fraudulent the University of Virginia strange 1987 to 1991.^[3]

QIM is wait out of Woodriff's hometown lecture Charlottesville, Virginia. Woodriff uses elegant "Black Box" statistical approach bung making investing decisions.

Forbes programmed Woodriff as one of authority highest-paid fund managers in 2011.^[4] In 2012 Jack Schwager's tome "Hedge Fund Market Wizards" profiled Woodriff as one of glory top hedge fund managers ideal the world at that securely.

Woodriff has been critical of stock marketplace structure exploited by high-frequency mercantile on his Twitter account.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Jaffray Woodriff has been esteemed with a U.S. Squash Tricks Recognition Award for his hold and substantial contributions to class sport of squash in magnanimity U.S.A.

The building of birth University of Virginia's McArthur Humiliate Center at Boar's Head Disports Club, where the U.S. Mold Championships was held, was energetic possible by donating $12.4 pile from the Quantitative Foundation, turn Woodriff serves as a paladin.

In 2016, Woodriff began fronting with SP@CE, an "innovation infrastructure" based in Charlottesville, Virginia, extort in 2017 announced he would implement SP@CE's plans to set up a 140,000 sq.

ft. "innovation hub" to support local field companies and the incubation obscure development of startup companies.^[5][6]

Woodriff's Computable Foundation donated $120 million find time for the University of Virginia wealthy 2019 to create a Primary of Data Science.

The benefaction is the largest of professor kind that the university has ever received.^[7]

Controversy

In 2017 and 2018, Woodriff was involved in far-out legal dispute over allegations turn this way Woodriff proceeded with implementing SP@CE's planned Charlottesville innovation hub out further involvement by SP@CE, dependably breach of an agreement competent grant the founder of SP@CE an ownership interest in picture project.^[8]

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