Lane Rettig

Lane Rettig studied computer science and East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley. Upon graduation in 2006, Lane received the prestigious University Medal, awarded to UC Berkeley’s ‘most distinguished graduating senior.’ Lane worked as a software developer and quantitative analyst at D. E. Shaw & Co., a New York-based hedge fund for six years–the first two years in New York, the last four in Hong Kong–before returning to the United States to begin a dual master’s degree program at the Wharton School and the Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies. Lane helped found and later led the Hong Kong chapter of Wokai, a Beijing-based microfinance institution which provided microloans to rural entrepreneurs in mainland China.