<p>In November, Matthew Ober tendered his resignation as co-head of data strategy at Igor Tulchinsky’s WorldQuant, a quantitative trading firm that trades for billionaire Israel Englander’s Millennium Management, one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street with $34 billion under management.</p>
<p>Ober, 32, told his bosses that he would be joining Third Point, the $17 billion hedge fund run by billionaire Dan Loeb. Ober had been making $200,000 annually at WorldQuant, but Loeb had offered Ober an annual salary of $2 million to be Third Point’s chief data scientist, legal filings show.</p>