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Benjamin Garnier-Petit

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Chief Technology Officer at Squarepoint
📍 New York, New York, United States

Benjamin Garnier-Petit is the Chief Technology Officer at Squarepoint, where he rose from a Quantitative Researcher role. He is a graduate of Stanford University and École Polytechnique and has co-authored academic papers on quantitative finance and reinforcement learning.

Outside of his professional life, Benjamin is a keen musician who enjoys playing both acoustic and electric guitar. He also has a passion for traveling and spends his free time solving interesting puzzles.

He has a strong interest in education, having served as a teaching assistant for AI and Reinforcement Learning courses at Stanford.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Chief Technology Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
New York, New York, United States
Personality Overview

How Benjamin shows up

Curious
Assertive
Example Seeker

They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting information. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing. They are generally strong communicators and are not easy to convince.

Priorities

Topics Benjamin cares about

Quantitative Finance
His career at Squarepoint and academic papers on topics like optimal multi-asset trading confirm his deep expertise in this area.
Reinforcement Learning
Served as a teaching assistant for a Reinforcement Learning course at Stanford and co-authored papers on related policy gradient methods.
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Career

Work history

4-2025
Chief Technology Officer
Squarepoint
9-2023 - 4-2025
Deputy Chief Technology Officer
Squarepoint
8-2020 - 9-2023
Quantitative Researcher
Squarepoint
9-2019 - 3-2020
Research Assistant
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)
6-2019 - 8-2019
Quantitative Research Intern
Squarepoint Capital
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
2018 - 2020
Master of Science - MS
Stanford University
2015 - 2019
Cycle polytechnicien - MS and BS
École Polytechnique
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

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