Chee Kian Ooi

Mr. Chee K.
Ooi is a Senior Portfolio Manager at SSgA Funds Management, Inc. In this role, he is the lead portfolio manager for the Global Defensive Equity and State Street Disciplined International Equity strategies.
His core responsibility also includes contributing to the team's research, strategy and business development effort.
Mr. Ooi has over twenty years of experience in quantitative equity research and investment management.
Prior to joining SSGA, he was a Director and Senior Quantitative Analyst at Citi's Global Quantitative Research group in New York.
His work at Citi was focused on the development of quantitative stock selection models and providing investment, risk management and portfolio construction solutions for the firm's institutional clients.
In that capacity, he was also responsible for the management of a suite of proprietary market neutral strategies.
Mr. Ooi started his career in finance at Salomon Brothers as an Equity Derivatives Research Analyst.
He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with a minor in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.