Citadel

Chief Operating Officer

Gerald A. Beeson

Gerald A. Beeson is the Chief Operating Officer of Citadel. As COO, he is responsible for the firm’s key corporate functions globally and is a member of Citadel’s Portfolio Committee. Prior to becoming COO in 2008, Gerald served as Citadel’s Chief Financial Officer, a role he has held since 2003. He joined Citadel in 1993 as an intern and was among the company’s first employees.

Gerald currently sits on the Market Risk Advisory Committee for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and previously served on the Board of Directors for the Managed Funds Association and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation.

Gerald received his MBA from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in Commerce with concentrations in Accountancy and Finance from DePaul University. He is registered as a certified public accountant with the State of Illinois and was named to Crain’s Chicago Business “Forty Under Forty” in 2007.

Gerald is a trustee of DePaul University and a 2014 recipient of the DePaul University Presidential Medal. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago as well as the Board of Directors for Marist High School and Big Shoulders Fund. Gerald is a member of the 2017 Class of Henry Crown Fellows within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.

Chief Risk Officer

Joanna Welsh

Joanna Welsh is Chief Risk Officer at Citadel. Joanna chairs Citadel’s Portfolio Committee and advises in determining risk tolerance levels for the strategies, businesses, and the funds as a whole.

Prior to joining Citadel, Joanna was at Tudor Investment Corporation for 15 years, most recently serving as Chief Risk Officer. With more than 20 years of experience in financial services and risk management, she also held senior risk positions at Commerzbank and Nomura.

Joanna received a master’s and bachelor’s degree from Oxford University.

Senior Advisor

Dr. Ben S. Bernanke

Dr. Ben S. Bernanke is a Distinguished Fellow in residence with the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. From February 2006 through January 2014, he was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, having been appointed to that position by both Presidents Bush and Obama. Dr. Bernanke also served as Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, the System’s principal monetary policymaking body.

Before his appointment as chairman, Dr. Bernanke was chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, from June 2005 to January 2006. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2002 to 2005.

From 1994 to 1996, Dr. Bernanke was the Class of 1926 professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He was the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and chair of the Economics Department at the university from 1996 to 2002. Dr. Bernanke had been a professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton since 1985.

Before arriving at Princeton, Dr. Bernanke was an associate professor of Economics (1983-85) and an assistant professor of Economics (1979-83) at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. His teaching career also included serving as a visiting professor of Economics at New York University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1975 from Harvard University (summa cum laude) and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Economics in 1979 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Global Treasurer

Daniel Dufresne

Daniel Dufresne is Global Treasurer at Citadel. He oversees the firm’s Treasury and Operations teams across the U.S., Europe and Asia with responsibility for Citadel’s liquidity framework, secured funding, capital allocation, cash and collateral exchange, counterparty exposure and the firm’s clearing and settlement activity. Mr. Dufresne is also a member of Citadel’s Portfolio Committee.

Mr. Dufresne joined Citadel in 1999 as Head of Repo Trading for Global Rates. In this role, he established the infrastructure to fund the Global Rates business and later traded as a PM. In 2003, he joined Treasury as Head of Liquid Products Financing and was named Global Treasurer in January 2008. Prior to joining Citadel, Mr. Dufresne was the global repo trader for D.E. Shaw’s fixed income business.

Mr. Dufresne has been a member of the Treasury Market Practices Group since 2007 and a member of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee since 2015. He was also a member of the Task Force on  Tri-Party Repo Infrastructure which began in 2009. That same year, he was named to Crain’s Chicago Business “Forty Under Forty”.

He received his Master of Business Administration with Honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and his bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.