Who really runs Jane Street? (opens the source in a new tab)
- Wall Street’s biggest trading house overtook JPMorgan last year, with almost $40 billion of trading revenue, yet has no named CEO and, on purpose, no partners list.
- Regulatory records show a management committee that meets monthly and decides on risk across the firm; a few dozen people, many of them company lifers, steer it.
- Co-founder Rob Granieri, the last of the four founders still there, has had no official title or headshot in the staff directory.
- None
- named CEO
- Monthly
- risk committee meets
Why it matters If you own an ETF Exchange-traded fund: a basket of shares or bonds you can buy and sell like a single stock., it was likely traded by a firm few can map.
Other side The firm says a conventional org chart misses leaders spread across a flat, collaborative structure. Is opacity a risk, or its edge?