Michael Chung

Michael Chung is Global Co-Head of Equities and a member of the firm's Senior Management team. Prior to this role, Michael was the Deputy Global Head of Equities. He is responsible for the daily oversight and management of the firm’s equity portfolio managers and teams globally, including fundamental, volatility, convertible bond arbitrage and event driven equities strategies. For these strategies, Michael is responsible for portfolio manager selection, capital allocation, evaluation of transactions and risk exceptions, and management of the global firmwide equity aggregated risk. He has nearly 25 years of experience in trading and risk management.

Prior to joining Millennium in 2016, Michael was the Head of Global Distressed and U.S. Credit Strategies at Arrowgrass Capital Partners, where he worked since inception as a Founding Partner. Before joining Arrowgrass, Michael spent four years working at Deutsche Bank, where he was the Head of Distressed and Event Driven Strategies at Omnis, a proprietary trading unit of Deutsche Bank. He began his career at Lehman Brothers as a research analyst for the firm’s distressed business.

Michael received a BS in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University.