Citadel’s energy and commodities business is big. Over the 24 years of its existence, it’s generated over $30bn of gross profits. Citadel as a whole has ‘only’ generated $90bn of profits since inception, although this is net of fees and expenses.
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When Citadel’s commodities business wants to hire you, you presumably pay attention, therefore. Mohsen Azarbadegan from Goldman Sachs has heeded the call.
After 16 years at Goldman, Azarbadegan has joined Citadel as head of commodities electronic trading engineering, based in London. At Goldman, he was an MD, a technologist, a strat, and then global head of futures electronic trading engineering.
Neither Azarbadegan nor Citadel responded to a request to comment for this article.
As is often the case, Azarbadegan will have a ready-made friend group at Citadel. Rupam Yadav, Citadel’s head of electronic trading engineering is a former Goldman Sachs partner who joined in May 2024. Matthew Mizrahi, who leads engineering teams for fixed income and credit, joined from Goldman in 2021.
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