Peter Alphonso Santoro

Mr. Peter A.
Santoro, Jr., is a Global Head of Equities at Millennium Management LLC.
He has over 25 years of experience in trading and risk management.
He has oversight and management responsibilities for Millennium's Equity portfolio managers and teams globally, including relative value fundamental and merger arb/ event equities strategies.
He shares responsibility along with the rest of the senior management team for Portfolio Manager selection, capital allocation, evaluation of transactions and risk exceptions, and management of the global firm-wide equity aggregated risk.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Santoro began his career at Swiss Bank Corporation where he held a number of positions around the globe trading currency options.
After that he held various trading and leadership roles at Citadel, Citi and Knight Trading Group across equities, equity derivatives, execution services, electronic trading and statistical arbitrage.
He also spent seven years at Morgan Stanley, most recently as Global Head of Equity Trading, where he was responsible for leading the equity business with a team of over 200 traders.
Prior to this role he served as the Head of Equities Trading for the Americas.
He received BS Civil Engineering degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.