Tarek Rizk is chief strategy officer with Qube Research & Technologies.
Rizk previously worked at Balyasny Asset Management (BAM), one of the world’s largest multi-strategy hedge funds, where he was a senior managing director in the systematic business. He led the firm’s activities across the Middle East and North Africa and served on its firm-wide management committee.
Before joining BAM in 2023, Rizk spent more than a decade at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), most recently as global head of alternative investments. There, he backed some of the most successful hedge fund launches of the past decade and built a culturally diverse team focused on hedge funds, insurance-linked strategies, and private markets, contributing to ADIA’s consistent outperformance.
Before joining ADIA, Rizk was a partner and head of tactical trading at Tages Group. From 2005 to 2011, he worked at Credit Suisse Asset Management, where he served as cohead of tactical trading, with global responsibility for quantitative, relative-value, and macro hedge fund strategies.
Rizk was an assistant professor of engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) in Michigan. At LTU, he was director of the Lear Entrepreneurial Center, which he helped establish in 2002. The center was among the first of its type to teach both engineering and business practices.
Rizk is passionate about education. Throughout his career, he has supported and guided young professionals, including women in the Middle East, empowering them to build self-confidence and excel as leaders in the financial industry. His volunteer work has centered around mentoring and sponsoring groups that are underrepresented in STEM in the both the U.S. and Egypt. Rizk developed “Engineering the World,” a hands-on community outreach program in Detroit, Michigan, designed to teach inner-city schoolchildren about math, science, and the world in which they live. A study of the program, which Rizk coauthored, was named Overall Best Paper by the Civil Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education in 2002.
Born in Egypt, Rizk earned BS and MS degrees in engineering from the American University in Cairo, an MBA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a PhD from the George Washington University, where he was awarded the School of Engineering and Applied Science Scholarship. He completed graduate courses in financial engineering at the University of Michigan and completed the General Management Program offered through Harvard Business School. Rizk is a naturalized U.S. citizen and has two sons with his wife, Amy Nofal.