Arun Kaul has been in the investment management business for over eighteen years and is the Managing Principal and the Chief Investment Officer of the Olympian Group of Investment Management Companies. Prior to Olympian, he was a co-founder and Chief Investment Officer …more ›

Andrew Kumiega has applied his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering to research positions in both the manufacturing and the financial industry over the last 20 years. He has held multiple Director level positions in financial trading firms responsible for front office financ…more ›

Dr. Sebastián Ceria is one of the world's foremost authorities on optimization. Before founding Axioma, Ceria was an Associate Professor of Decision, Risk and Operations at Columbia Business School from 1993 to 1998. He was honored with the prestigious Career…more ›

James is a founding partner and President of QS Investors. James is the Chair of the Global Equity and Strategic Asset Allocation investment committees as well as a member of the Global Macro Investment Committee. QS Investors is an independent investment firm providi…more ›

Blair Hull is the chairman of Hull Investments, Founder of Ketchum Trading, and the former CEO and chairman of Hull Trading Company. In 1985, Blair Hull founded Hull Trading Company, a global leader in the application of computer technology to listed derivatives tradi…more ›

Matthew Shapiro is President of MWS Capital LLC, a Fidelity Institutional Adviser specializing in Wealth Management. Matt is an expert in portfolio analysis and supervision, fixed income investing, 401k optimization, and complex wealth management and estate issues. Ma…more ›

David Jessop is the Global Head of Equities Quantitative Research at UBS. His areas of research include portfolio analysis and construction, style analysis and risk modelling. He also helps clients understand, use and implement the quantitative tools available from UBS.…more ›

John, a 20 year industry veteran, has held leadership positions in strategy, management, architecture, and the design of high volume, high performance, low latency systems. He served as the Head of Technology for SBC’s Global Foreign Exchange business; VP of Electronic …more ›

Larry Pitcher is the Managing Partner at Quantorithms Fund, LLC. Mr. Pitcher has enjoyed trading since he was a Series 7 Stock Broker in 1987. In 1989 he founded Chicago Investment Center, Inc. and in 2008 founded Quantitative Algorithms Capital Partners, LLC. He heads …more ›

An experienced growth technology executive, Nick Solinger is responsible for marketing and product strategy at Traiana. Prior to joining the company in 2002, Nick led the team that defined and launched the Traiana Harmony offering, which today is the firm's flagship…more ›

Emanuel Derman is Head of Risk at Prisma Capital Partners and a professor at Columbia University, where he directs their program in financial engineering. He is the author of My Life As A Quant, one of Business Week's top ten books of the year, in which he introduce…more ›

AMITABH DUGAR is a Senior Portfolio Manager at THEAM (A BNP Paribas Investment Partner). Amitabh is a seasoned investment professional with over fourteen years of experience in portfolio management and investment research. He has an extensive background in developing an…more ›

James Koutoulas founded Typhon in March 2008 and is responsible for the firm’s legal, compliance and business development activities. He also contributes to portfolio construction, manager evaluation, and operations. James has run the operations and supervised the tradi…more ›

Carol Clark is a senior policy specialist, financial markets in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Her research interests include high speed trading as well as financial markets clearing and settlement. Prior to joining the financia…more ›

Howard Tai is a senior analyst with Aite Group, focusing on derivatives products, multi-asset class investment, and risk management strategies, as well as the role of electronic trading in currency, equity derivatives, convertible securities, and equities. Mr. Tai brin…more ›

Yin Luo is a Managing Director and Global Head of Quantitative Strategy at Deutsche Bank. Yin joined Deutsche Bank in New York in October 2009. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Yin spent over 12 years at four other investment banks and KPMG, with various roles in quantitative re…more ›

Attilio Meucci is a pioneer in advanced risk and portfolio management. His innovations include Entropy Pooling (technique for fully flexible portfolio construction), Factors on Demand (on-the-fly factor model for optimal hedging), Effective Number of Bets (entropy-eigen…more ›

Mr. Stucke is a Senior Managing Director of Guggenheim Partners, the head of external manager research across Guggenheim entities and the Chief Investment Officer of Guggenheim Investment Advisors, a global multi-family office and investment advisory practice. Prior to …more ›

As principal at his family office, Heinz is a diversified investor with a passion for angel investing in technology startups. He is an active member of the Advisory Faculty at the Institute for Private Investors (a network of ~300 family offices), the governing body of …more ›

Wai Lee, PhD, Managing Director, joined the firm in 2004. Wai is the Chief Investment Officer and Director of Research for the Quantitative Investment Group (QIG) with overall responsibility for the quantitative investment function. He is a member of the firm’s Investme…more ›

As Managing Director, Mr. Nenner is responsible for the firm’s “super” high-touch trading division, a successful, specialty niche of their global operations. He has more than 20 years of extensive experience in portfolio management and trading, corporate, operative, an…more ›

Scott Ladner is the Director of Alternative Strategies for Horizon Investments and a Founding Partner of Principal Guard, LLC. His duties at Horizon, a tactical asset manager with over $4 billion in AUM, are focused on building out the firm's capabilities in the al…more ›