Roy Niederhoffer

March 20, 2024

Roy Niederhoffer began his business career at age 13, when he founded a successful computer game development company, and by age 16 had over 30 employees. He began investing in 1981. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1987 with a degree in Computational Neuroscience. After working for another hedge fund for 5 years, he founded R. G. Niederhoffer Capital Management, Inc. (“RGNCM”), in 1993. Since then, RGNCM has employed a quantitative, behavioral finance-based strategy to trade equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, and commodities to provide returns that are both valuable on a stand-alone basis and provide significant downside protection to clients’ portfolios. Mr. Niederhoffer leads the Management Committee and brings nearly 35 years of experience in the hedge fund industry. Mr. Niederhoffer served for many years as Chairman of the Board of the New York City Opera and of the Harmony Program, which provides intensive instrumental music education to under-served NYC-area schoolkids. He is an accomplished classical and jazz pianist, performed and recorded for decades on violin with the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony (including several performances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center), enjoys playing many other instruments and musical styles, and is an avid tennis player and skier. He, his wife and his five children reside in Vermont and New York City.