Yanni Hufnagel is the CEO and founder of Atlanta-based The Lemon Perfect Company. His background includes being an investment banker with Goldman Sachs Prime Brokerage and a founder of the institutional hedge fund Citadel Investment Group LLC. He has a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and a master’s degree in economics from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy. He has shown keen investors in companies and invested on his account. Yanni Hufnagel is chairman of the Yanni Technologies, Inc. board, which provides digital media and research software solutions to the pharmaceutical industry.

1. Career

He has worked as a former investment banker with Goldman Sachs and a founder of the institutional hedge fund Citadel Investment Group LLC. He also worked in the pharmaceutical industry and has shown to be a keen investor. He is chairman of the board of Yanni Technologies, Inc., which provides digital media and research software solutions to the pharmaceutical industry. He has served as a director of several public companies, such as Leapster Technologies LLC and Blue Coat Systems, Inc. Mr. Hufnagel is also active in industry organizations such as the Business Roundtable, where he serves on the board of directors. Mr. Hufnagel has also been the author of several articles and a speaker at many events.

2. Education/Training

He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and a master’s degree in economics from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He also gained expertise at Goldman Sachs, where he worked as an investment banker. He obtained a certificate of completion from the Harvard Business School Executive Education program entitled “Strategic Management and Leadership.”

His success has led to him being invited to be a speaker in many different countries. He has been a speaker at events such as the World Summit on Sustainable Development and the World Business Summit. He has created a series of videos on YouTube called “The Hufnagel Daily.” The videos span various topics, such as leadership and motivation. He has also written a book entitled “The Lemon Perfect Company,” which discusses how he went from being a high-school dropout to becoming a billionaire entrepreneur.